{"id":285883,"date":"2025-11-15T09:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T09:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/285883\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T09:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T09:31:08","slug":"hawaii-nfl-quarterbacks-from-the-same-high-school-to-face-off-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/285883\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii NFL quarterbacks from the same high school to face off for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; Hawaii-born NFL quarterbacks Tua Tagovailoa and Marcus Mariota will face off against each other for the first time ever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Miami Dolphins take on the Washington Commanders this Sunday in Spain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It\u2019s believed to be the first time two QBs from the same Hawaii high school will play against each other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The two St. Louis alums are five years apart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cFor us, Tua and myself, we grew up in the middle of the Pacific, far away from here,\u201d Mariota said in a press conference. \u201cThe fact of the matter is, we get a chance to be a part of this game is very special, and I don\u2019t take that for granted at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI was a big fan of him, still am, just of the person that he is outside of the player,\u201d Tagovailoa said. \u201cJust happy for his success. I know he\u2019s been going through ebbs and flows throughout years and teams, but if you get to know the kind of person he is, the playing and whatnot is second.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Kick off in Madrid is set for 4:30 a.m. Hawaii time on the NFL Network.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 Hawaii News Now. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; Hawaii-born NFL quarterbacks Tua Tagovailoa and Marcus Mariota will face off against each other for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,596,3367,1233,593,6672,165036,85,5379,1272],"class_list":{"0":"post-285883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-marcus-mariota","12":"tag-miami-dolphins","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-nfl-football","15":"tag-nfl-in-spain","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-tua-tagovailoa","18":"tag-washington-commanders"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}