{"id":11466,"date":"2019-10-16T10:00:33","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T15:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=11466"},"modified":"2019-10-14T21:12:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T02:12:05","slug":"gmg-has-the-helmets-but-not-the-headcount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/10\/gmg-has-the-helmets-but-not-the-headcount\/","title":{"rendered":"GMG has the helmets, but not the headcount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost three weeks ago, KCCI had a story about GMG having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcci.com\/article\/small-town-spends-dollar45000-on-football-helmets\/29256957\">state-of-the-art helmets for its football team<\/a>. (Video with story, un-embeddable. Also check out GMG&#8217;s new gym. Well, almost-decade-old gym.)\u00a0But high-tech helmets don&#8217;t provide any protection from being a tiny school district \u2014 or car accidents.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">According to a statement from GMG High School, the Wolverines will not play football at North Tama tonight because of low numbers. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GmgAthletics?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GmgAthletics<\/a> officially forfeits. No official word on GMG\u2019s remaining games at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BCLUWActivities?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BCLUWActivities<\/a> or vs. Starmont. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NTRedhawks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NTRedhawks<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/iahsfb?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#iahsfb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ross Thede (@RossThedeTR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RossThedeTR\/status\/1182667233954336770?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 11, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>GMG&#8217;s forfeit last week to North Tama leaves two games on the schedule, its last 11-player games before switching to eight next year.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width='640' height='480' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen src='\/\/cdn2.trb.tv\/iframe.html?ec=lqN2NtaTE6k9rVKpsgvyL6kK4IqszW96&#038;pbid=65279b80531146eea3c65f3510b1c4b9&#038;pcode=oycHE6T-HajMk2Hs9PsZzFdXZduU'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>WHO happened to have footage of GMG this season because its Week 0 opponent, <a href=\"https:\/\/whotv.com\/2019\/08\/03\/numbers-game-iowa-schools-fighting-to-save-football-season-before-it-begins\/\">Martensdale-St. Marys, also had participation issues<\/a>. Grand View Christian, in MSM&#8217;s district, cancelled its season before it began, but its school calendar still has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grandviewchristianschool.org\/pro\/responsive\/tools\/includes\/events\/event_view.cfm?detailid=374189&#038;event_type=main&#038;memberid=2734&#038;eventid=489&#038;categoryid=\">junior high game scheduled for October 24<\/a>&#8230;at GMG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost three weeks ago, KCCI had a story about GMG having state-of-the-art helmets for its football team. (Video with story, un-embeddable. Also check out GMG&#8217;s new gym. Well, almost-decade-old gym.)\u00a0But high-tech helmets don&#8217;t provide any protection from being a tiny &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/10\/gmg-has-the-helmets-but-not-the-headcount\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-tama-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11466"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11469,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11466\/revisions\/11469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}