{"id":395299,"date":"2024-05-19T19:12:07","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T19:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=395299"},"modified":"2024-05-19T20:05:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T20:05:32","slug":"packed-friday-night-northern-wisconsin-hs-football-games-clash-with-green-bays-nfl-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=395299","title":{"rendered":"'Packed' Friday night: Northern Wisconsin HS football games clash with Green Bay's NFL opener"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NFL schedule release has created excitement for fans across the country and even the world, a progression that continues to highlight the league’s dominance. However, some of the expansion has introduced a bit of detailed torment for high school football in northern Wisconsin.<\/span><\/p>\n

It begins with history in South America.<\/span><\/p>\n

Green Bay’s 2024 opener is on September 6 against the Philadelphia Eagles in Sao Paola, Brazil.<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s the first-ever NFL game in South America and the first meeting between the two NFC teams since 2022 when the Eagles won 40-33 at Lincoln Financial Field.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Kyzir White #43 of the Philadelphia Eagles attempts to tackle Aaron Jones #33 of the Green Bay Packers during the second half at Lincoln Financial Field on November 27, 2022 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Scott Taetsch\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

It’s also on a Friday, when the bright lights of high school football have historically shined without the NFL causing any scheduling dilemmas for the fans\u2014both in the stands and on the field.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the game was set in February, a major announcement that headlined the Eagles as one of the teams making the international trip.<\/span><\/p>\n

The other team was TBD, which added to the intrigue and simultaneously developed conflict for any sports on September 6 that might be in the fan base’s area.<\/span><\/p>\n

Once Green Bay became the opponent, that scenario\u00a0<\/span>took aim at<\/span>\u00a0high school football, where officials have been figuring out ways to shift things around under the new circumstances.<\/span><\/p>\n

And\u00a0<\/span>it’s not an easy lift<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

According to a report from USA TODAY Network’s Green Bay Press Gazette<\/a>, a few games\u2014Pulaski vs. De Pere and Bay Port vs. Preble\u2014have already moved to Thursday, while others have made earlier kickoff times.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Bay Port players watch from the sidelines during a game against Pulaski. (USA TODAY Network)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

But that shift presents a far more significant issue, as Steve Kestly, co-commissioner of the Fox River Classic Conference, highlighted:<\/span><\/p>\n

“There are\u00a0<\/span>10<\/span>\u00a0conferences that share officials. If everybody wants to move their games to Thursday, you have to see if officials are available\u00a0<\/span>and<\/span> if everyone wants to do that, there won’t be enough officials.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The puzzle\u00a0<\/span>is filled<\/span> with more than just football pieces, too; other fall sports, such as volleyball and soccer, could get caught up in the domino effect created by moving football games to Thursdays.<\/span><\/p>\n

“We have to\u00a0take other things into consideration,” Kestly explained to\u00a0the Gazette’s\u00a0<\/a>Jeff Bollier<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“That’s why it will be on an individual basis.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NFL’s historic game presents a bit of an issue for high school football.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":395301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=395299"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":395318,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395299\/revisions\/395318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/395301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=395299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=395299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=395299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}