{"id":273613,"date":"2026-08-28T01:24:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T01:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/273613\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T01:24:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T01:24:18","slug":"football-friday-countdown-spotlights-h-s-teams-players-storylines-in-south-central-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/273613\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Football Friday Countdown’ spotlights H.S. teams, players, storylines in South-Central Pa."},"content":{"rendered":"

WGAL\u2019s ‘Football Friday Countdown’ spotlights teams, players and storylines in South-Central Pennsylvania<\/p>\n

\"Bethany<\/a>\"Jacob<\/a>LANCASTER, Pa. \u2014<\/p>\n

Get ready for the return of high school football! <\/p>\n

The “Football Friday Countdown” aired on WGAL, giving fans an exciting preview of the upcoming season across the Susquehanna Valley. <\/p>\n

Sports Director Bethany Miller<\/a> and Jacob Hall<\/a> hosted “Football Friday Countdown,” spotlighting the teams, players and storylines to watch as local programs prepare to take the field. <\/p>\n

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WGAL’s ‘Football Friday’ tradition<\/p>\n

WGAL\u2019s high school football coverage has been a fall tradition in the Susquehanna Valley for more than three decades. <\/p>\n

The station launched “Football Friday” in the mid-1990s, introducing a fast-paced showcase that went beyond scores and highlights to celebrate the full Friday-night experience\u2014including players, coaches, fans, marching bands and cheerleaders.<\/p>\n

Today, “Football Friday” continues to chronicle the season from opening night through district and state playoffs, delivering scores, game highlights, postgame interviews and viewer-voted plays of the week from communities across South-Central Pennsylvania. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WGAL\u2019s ‘Football Friday Countdown’ spotlights teams, players and storylines in South-Central Pennsylvania LANCASTER, Pa. \u2014 Get ready for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[115095,115097,32004,115098,9513,115101,115099,14087,115094,5263,115100,304,28042,115096,33539,7185,73465,28,30,29,11991,115104,10663,11929,3617,3689,115105,115102,42915,2483,115103,12173,2812],"class_list":["post-273613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-bethany-miller","tag-bishop-mcdevitt","tag-cheerleaders","tag-crusaders","tag-district","tag-district-playoffs","tag-fall-tradition","tag-fan","tag-football-friday-countdown","tag-friday-night","tag-game-highlights","tag-high-school-football","tag-highlight","tag-jacob-hall","tag-kickoff","tag-marching-bands","tag-opening-night","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-player","tag-player-storylines","tag-preview","tag-score","tag-season","tag-south-central-pennsylvania","tag-spotlight-h-s-team","tag-state-playoffs","tag-storyline","tag-susquehanna-valley","tag-team-previews","tag-tonight","tag-wgal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}