{"id":1388,"date":"2013-08-30T01:19:54","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T06:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/?p=1388"},"modified":"2013-08-29T20:30:02","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T01:30:02","slug":"ready-or-not-football-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/30\/ready-or-not-football-is-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready or Not, Football is Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night was the official kickoff of the College Football season, and the final night of the NFL preseason.<\/p>\n<p>No longer content to have all of their games air on Saturdays, the expanding television landscape for college football now gives fans games Thursday through Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The NFL gives viewers live game action on Sundays, Mondays, and Thursdays.<\/p>\n<p>So for roughly the next five months there are only two days out of the week where live football games are not being broadcast somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>And I am sure on those dark Tuesdays and Wednesdays there will be a replay of a game somewhere on the dial meaning that a fan could watch a football game every night of the week.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1392\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1392\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/South-Carolina.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1392\" alt=\"Steve Spurrier's South Carolina Gamecocks kicked off the College football season last night with a game against North Carolina proving that Thursday night college football is here to stay. Photo R. Anderson\" src=\"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/South-Carolina-235x300.jpg\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/South-Carolina-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/South-Carolina-803x1024.jpg 803w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1392\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Spurrier&#8217;s South Carolina Gamecocks kicked off the College football season last night with a game against North Carolina proving that Thursday night College Football is here to stay.<br \/>Photo R. Anderson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Don<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night was the official kickoff of the College Football season, and the final night of the NFL preseason. No longer content to have all of their games air on Saturdays, the expanding television landscape for college football now gives fans games Thursday through Saturday. The NFL gives viewers live game action on Sundays, Mondays, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/30\/ready-or-not-football-is-here\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ready or Not, Football is Here<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[180,181,182],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}