{"id":6251,"date":"2016-01-12T10:19:29","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T15:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/?p=6251"},"modified":"2016-01-12T10:19:29","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T15:19:29","slug":"bluebirds-sign-radu-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/?p=6251","title":{"rendered":"Bluebirds sign Radu, Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1258125\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/41ff3fac-68db-4253-a943-2d53092b3c51-225x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1258125\" class=\"wp-image-1258125 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/41ff3fac-68db-4253-a943-2d53092b3c51-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"41ff3fac-68db-4253-a943-2d53092b3c51\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1258125\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tyreese Green<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The West Chester Bluebirds have signed former Temple Owl&#8217;s punter George Radu and Lincoln Lions lineman Tyreese Green for the 2016 season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Radu punted for the Owls&#8217; in the 1999 and 2000 seasons where he averaged 36.6 yards per punt, he also holds a team record 12 punts in one game. \u00a0Since leaving Temple, Radu has become a successful kicking coach.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Bluebirds have also added offensive lineman Tyreese Green who recently finished his collegiate career at The Lincoln University. \u00a0Green, a former Old Spice Player of the Year during his high school career, will add size to the Bluebirds&#8217; offensive line. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On Monday the 11th, Bluebirds&#8217; wide receiver Chris Roach underwent successful surgery to repair a rotator cuff. \u00a0He has been added to the team&#8217;s inured list, and will serve as an assistant offensive coach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Bluebirds will begin their inaugural season as members of the East Coast Football Association (<a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.us11.list-manage1.com\/track\/click?u=8e4ce30097adf225dd23f3c80&amp;id=99b5993ae7&amp;e=7c219a28a6\"><span class=\"s2\">www.ecfafootball.net<\/span><\/a>) on February 27th hosting the Hanover Rhinos of the Atlantic Football Association in non-league play at O&#8217;Shields-Stevenson Stadium.\u00a0 For more information, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.us11.list-manage1.com\/track\/click?u=8e4ce30097adf225dd23f3c80&amp;id=4eb92cecc3&amp;e=7c219a28a6\"><span class=\"s2\">www.westchesterbluebirds.com<\/span><\/a>, follow the team on Facebook or Twitter @WCBluebirds.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The West Chester Bluebirds have signed former Temple Owl&#8217;s punter George Radu and Lincoln Lions lineman Tyreese Green for the 2016 season. Radu punted for the Owls&#8217; in the 1999 and 2000 seasons where he averaged 36.6 yards per punt, he also holds a team record 12 punts in one game. \u00a0Since leaving Temple, Radu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[57,3824,3823,3655],"class_list":["post-6251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-football","tag-lincoln","tag-temple","tag-west-chester-bluebirds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}