{"id":1957,"date":"2014-02-03T16:51:35","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T21:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/17\/furman-alum-shines-in-super-bowl-commercial\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T19:46:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T00:46:16","slug":"furman-alum-shines-in-super-bowl-commercial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-alum-shines-in-super-bowl-commercial\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman alum shines in Super Bowl commercial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9905\" style=\"width: 295px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/cantwell-nadd.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9905\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9905 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/cantwell-nadd.jpg\" alt=\"Lt. Chuck Nadd and Shannon Cantwell '11 enjoy the tickertape parade.\" width=\"285\" height=\"300\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 285px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 285\/300;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9905\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lt. Chuck Nadd and Shannon Cantwell &#8217;11 enjoy the tickertape parade.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you saw the Super Bowl commercial Sunday night where Lt. Chuck Nadd got a surprise tickertape parade in his hometown after returning from a tour in Afghanistan, you might have thought his girlfriend, Shannon Cantwell, looked familiar.\u00a0 Cantwell, a 2011 Furman graduate, nominated Nadd for the honor and helped set up the arrangements so Anheuser-Busch could film the homecoming and create a Super Bowl commercial from it.<\/p>\n<p>Cantwell, who works in Washington, D.C., for U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby, graduated <i>summa cum laude<\/i> from Furman with a degree in economics and political science.\u00a0 She is originally from Fairhope, Ala.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2014\/01\/31\/fla-soldier-his-hometown-star-in-super-bowl-ad\/\">FOX News<\/a><\/b> in Winter Park, Fla., reported on how all it all came together, and the Anheuser-Busch ad has received more than eight million hits on <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=K7L5QByvXOQ&amp;feature=youtu.be\">YouTube<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you saw the Super Bowl commercial Sunday night where Lt. Chuck Nadd got a surprise tickertape parade in his hometown after returning from a tour in Afghanistan, you might have thought his girlfriend, Shannon Cantwell, looked familiar.\u00a0 Cantwell, a 2011 Furman graduate, nominated Nadd for the honor and helped set up the arrangements so Anheuser-Busch could film the homecoming and create a Super Bowl commercial from it.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2014\/01\/31\/fla-soldier-his-hometown-star-in-super-bowl-ad\/\">FOX News<\/a><\/b>\u00a0in Winter Park, Fla., reported on how all it all came together, and the Anheuser-Busch ad has received more than eight million hits on\u00a0<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=K7L5QByvXOQ&amp;feature=youtu.be\">YouTube<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":12822,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}