{"id":5523,"date":"2014-11-20T09:50:26","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T15:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=5523"},"modified":"2014-11-20T22:51:51","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T04:51:51","slug":"class-a-football-championship-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/11\/class-a-football-championship-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Class A football championship today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon, Gladbrook-Reinbeck plays Logan-Magnolia for the Iowa Class A football title. If you miss watching a power running game from the I-formation or the <a href=\"http:\/\/siouxcityjournal.com\/sports\/high-school\/football\/logan-magnolia-dominates-possession-to-down-wildcats\/article_3489a23c-ebaf-5602-8cc7-9675cebcc5fb.html\">wishbone offense<\/a>\u00a0with ten players in a three-point stance, this is the game for you. (On the defensive side, GR stopped Denver&#8217;s opening drive at the 1 last week.)<\/p>\n<p>The championship games are Thursday-Friday this year because UNI has a home game Saturday, although there could have been games Saturday morning. I don&#8217;t know why the UNI-Dome won&#8217;t host any games before the semifinals anymore, but it may be a cost thing.<\/p>\n<p>If you want a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iahsaa.org\/football\/football-playoff-t-shirts-available-2\/\">playoff shirt<\/a>, you might be disappointed: This year there is only one color (white on black) and <em>only<\/em> the semifinalists from each class are listed. It&#8217;s hard to list 192 districts on one shirt. (Another casualty of expanded playoffs.)<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: <a href=\"http:\/\/wcfcourier.com\/sports\/high-school\/other_high_schools\/class-a-championship-logan-magnolia-tops-gladbrook-reinbeck\/article_28e81306-e5d0-5002-88f2-9924dc3cb01b.html\">Logan-Magnolia 28, Gladbrook-Reinbeck 24<\/a>. Also, <a href=\"http:\/\/wcfcourier.com\/sports\/high-school\/man-champs-newell-fonda-wins-title\/article_453b3806-58de-5749-80bd-01be36025e6e.html\">Newell-Fonda 39, Fremont-Mills 35<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon, Gladbrook-Reinbeck plays Logan-Magnolia for the Iowa Class A football title. If you miss watching a power running game from the I-formation or the wishbone offense\u00a0with ten players in a three-point stance, this is the game for you. (On &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/11\/class-a-football-championship-today\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5523","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=5523"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5535,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5523\/revisions\/5535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}