{"id":1818,"date":"2026-08-07T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron-elementor\/preview-den-at-kc-week-1-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T08:00:00","slug":"week-1-preview-thunder-at-pioneers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/yardline-league-elementor\/week-1-preview-thunder-at-pioneers\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 1 preview: Thunder at Pioneers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Highmesa Thunder travel to Homestead Stadium, Prairie City for the opening week of the 2026 season, kick-off Tuesday 15 September at 00:15 UTC, live on SportsNet \/ Channel 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Highmesa Thunder finished the 2025 season 14-3 and took the 1st seed in the Atlantic. Prairie City Pioneers finished 6-11 and missed the bracket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The opening line has it at KC -3 with a total of 42.5, which tells you the market is treating this as a home-field game rather than a mismatch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is a version of this game that turns on one snap, and both benches knew which one it was. Everything after it was played at a different tempo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Arthur Rowe is in charge on the home sideline, with Pete Halvorsen opposite him. Week one form is famously unreliable, but the openers still set the tone for a division race that runs to January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highmesa Thunder open at Homestead Stadium, live on SportsNet \/ Channel 7. Two clubs that finished 14-3 and 6-11 meet on the first weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":3153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[99,51,100,98],"class_list":["post-1818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-previews","tag-2026-season","tag-broncos","tag-chiefs","tag-week-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/yardline-league-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/yardline-league-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/yardline-league-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/yardline-league-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/yardline-league-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/yardline-league-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/yardline-league-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/yardline-league-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/yardline-league-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/yardline-league-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}