{"id":84865,"date":"2025-11-22T18:33:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T22:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/allen-wyoming-retires-bills-qb-jersey-in-emotional-tribute\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T18:33:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T22:33:47","slug":"allen-wyoming-retires-bills-qb-jersey-in-emotional-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nfl\/allen-wyoming-retires-bills-qb-jersey-in-emotional-tribute\/","title":{"rendered":"Allen: Wyoming Retires Bills QB Jersey in Emotional Tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"LARAMIE, WY &#8211; The fans gathered at War Memorial Stadium turned their attention as the clock marked the end of the first half. The Nevada team was leading Wyoming with a score of 7-0, but the presence of a special figure on the sidelines captured the attention of the crowd.\n\nJosh Allen, accompanied by his parents, Joel and Lavonne, and former Wyoming coach Craig Bohl, returned to Laramie for the first time since his Pro Day in 2018. On this occasion, the American football player returned to be honored as the last Cowboy to wear the number 17.\n\nOn Saturday, during halftime, his jersey was retired, making him the third athlete in Wyoming history to receive this honor, joining former basketball players Fennis Dembo and Kenny Sailors.\n\nA video with Allen&#8217;s highlights from college was shown, and then his name and number were revealed in the center of the stadium.\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1122%2Fr1579244_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Josh Allen posa con sus padres durante la ceremonia de retiro de su camiseta en su alma m\u00e1ter Wyoming.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nDuring the ceremony, Allen expressed his gratitude:\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;First of all, I want to thank everyone for coming tonight. This is an incredible honor, a great blessing. There are many people I can thank for this achievement. Many teammates here. I love them.<\/p><cite>Josh Allen<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nHe also thanked his coaches, who believed in him, the fans, and everyone who supported him in Wyoming. He concluded by saying that he felt honored and blessed to represent the university and the state, saying goodbye with a &#8220;Go Pokes&#8221;.\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1122%2Fr1579245_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Josh Allen saluda a un estadio repleto en el War Memorial Stadium, donde Wyoming retir\u00f3 su camiseta n\u00famero 17 durante una ceremonia en el descanso del partido del s\u00e1bado.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nThe Bills had a bye week after losing to the Texans on &#8220;Thursday Night Football.&#8221; Allen met and spent time with the football team on Friday night.\n\nCoach Bohl commented on the emotionality of the ceremony, highlighting Allen&#8217;s impact on the program and the state, and how the recognition was deserved and moving.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LARAMIE, WY &#8211; The fans gathered at War Memorial Stadium turned their attention as the clock marked the end of the first half. The Nevada team was leading Wyoming with a score of 7-0, but the presence of a special figure on the sidelines captured the attention of the crowd. Josh Allen, accompanied by his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[6272,5015,8196,10573],"class_list":{"0":"post-84865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-bills","9":"tag-jersey-retirement","10":"tag-josh-allen","11":"tag-wyoming"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}