{"id":13626,"date":"2021-10-22T10:05:25","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T15:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=13626"},"modified":"2021-10-20T21:56:40","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T02:56:40","slug":"north-tama-footballs-longest-road-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2021\/10\/north-tama-footballs-longest-road-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"North Tama football&#8217;s longest road trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Tama football lost by a combined 42-0 in its last two games, so the Redhawks are on the road for the &#8220;first round&#8221; of the playoffs. (I will not get used to calling round-of-32\u00a0the first round, let alone consider it &#8220;going to state&#8221;.) Tonight&#8217;s opponent, Wapello, will make for the farthest road game in North Tama history. Here&#8217;s a list of the longest road trips.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wapello, 128 miles (postseason 2021)<\/li>\n<li>WACO in Wayland <em>and<\/em> Winfield-Mount Union, 121 miles<\/li>\n<li>Mason City Newman, 104 miles (<a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2011\/11\/newman-31-north-tama-7\/\">postseason 2011<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>St. Ansgar, 103 miles (first-time opponent 2021)<\/li>\n<li>Riceville <em>and<\/em> Postville, 100 miles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Farther-flung state playoff opponents, including Central Decatur (158 miles) and Woodbury Central (206 miles) last year, came to either Traer or the UNI-Dome, an easy half-hour away.<\/p>\n<p>It could be worse \u2014 GTRA, in northwest Iowa, plays tonight in Gladbrook, 180 miles away.<\/p>\n<p>Kickoff temperature in Wapello (54) will be 9 degrees higher than in Traer (45), according to the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Tama football lost by a combined 42-0 in its last two games, so the Redhawks are on the road for the &#8220;first round&#8221; of the playoffs. (I will not get used to calling round-of-32\u00a0the first round, let alone consider &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2021\/10\/north-tama-footballs-longest-road-trip\/\">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-13626","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\/13626","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=13626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13627,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13626\/revisions\/13627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}