{"id":92207,"date":"2025-06-10T01:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T01:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/92207\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T01:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T01:20:10","slug":"former-nfl-rushing-champion-a-professed-brewers-fan-spends-day-at-american-family-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/92207\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NFL rushing champion, a professed Brewers fan, spends day at American Family Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former NFL rushing champion and four-time Pro Bowler <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/F\/FostAr00.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Arian Foster;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Arian Foster<\/a> doesn&#8217;t have any roots in Milwaukee, but he spent June 9 hanging out at American Family Field, home to his professed MLB rooting interest.<\/p>\n<p>Foster watched batting practice and threw out a ceremonial first pitch before the Brewers&#8217; game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/atlanta-braves\/239\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Braves;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Braves<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/mlb\/milwaukee-brewers\/former-star-nfl-running-back-now-surprisingly-the-biggest-brewers-fan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Foster said on a podcast earlier this year;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Foster said on a podcast earlier this year <\/a>that he&#8217;d never been to Milwaukee but fell in love with the Brewers&#8217; unique ball-in-glove logo.<\/p>\n<p>Foster&#8217;s day at the stadium included <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Brewers\/status\/1932204208112988475\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:a trip down Bernie Brewer&#039;s slide,;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">a trip down Bernie Brewer&#8217;s slide,<\/a> meeting <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Brewers\/status\/1932218314039726218\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jackson Chourio;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Jackson Chourio<\/a> and apparently <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ArianFoster\/status\/1932195475790110723\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:tailgating.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">tailgating.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Foster played eight seasons in the NFL, mostly with the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/houston-texans\/325\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Houston Texans;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Houston Texans<\/a>, though multiple years were shortened by injury. He made Pro Bowls in 2010-2012 and again in 2014, including a first-team All Pro season in 2010 when he racked up a league-best 1,616 yards. He cleared 1,200 yards in four seasons and twice led the league in rushing touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Born in New Mexico, Foster also played high-school sports in California and attended college in Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/sports\/mlb\/brewers\/2025\/06\/09\/nfl-star-milwaukee-brewers-fan-arian-foster-spends-day-at-american-family-field\/84123741007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NFL star, Brewers fan Arian Foster spends day in Milwaukee;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">NFL star, Brewers fan Arian Foster spends day in Milwaukee<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former NFL rushing champion and four-time Pro Bowler Arian Foster doesn&#8217;t have any roots in Milwaukee, but he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2401],"tags":[21762,5,136,15958,17249,3875,843,59,4280,4,1082],"class_list":{"0":"post-92207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-milwaukee-brewers","8":"tag-arian-foster","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-brewers","11":"tag-ceremonial-first-pitch","12":"tag-houston-texans","13":"tag-jackson-chourio","14":"tag-milwaukee","15":"tag-milwaukee-brewers","16":"tag-milwaukeebrewers","17":"tag-mlb","18":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114656446888214593","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}