{"id":738598,"date":"2026-02-08T18:36:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T18:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/738598\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T18:36:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T18:36:25","slug":"high-school-football-to-be-featured-during-super-bowl-pregame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/738598\/","title":{"rendered":"High school football to be featured during Super Bowl pregame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NBC\u2019s five-hour Super Bowl pregame coverage for the game between the <a href=\"http:\/\/patriots.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">New England Patriots<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/seahawks.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Seattle Seahawks<\/a> will have plenty of angles. One of those will be a short documentary by longtime sports reporter Peter King, who will examine the importance of high school football.<\/p>\n<p>King, who is best know for his work with Sports Illustrated for nearly three decades (1989-2018), traveled to Alabama, Alaska, Nebraska and New Mexico, for a seven-minute documentary named Football in America with Peter King.<\/p>\n<p>The captivating video takes fans from Winnebago, Nebraska to Santa Fe, New Mexico to Juneau, Alaska and finally Prattville, Alabama. In between, King makes a stop at Williams College for Division III football in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>The story begins in Nebraska with the Winnebago Indians, winners of the 2025 South Dakota 9A All-Nations high school football state championship. The All-Nations Football Conference\u00a0is\u00a0a 9-man high school football league (17 teams) in South Dakota and Nebraska for schools that have at league 50-percent Native American student enrollment.<\/p>\n<p>After stop at Williams College, King ventures to Santa Fe, New Mexico where he checks-out the New Mexico School for the Deaf that plays 6-man football. Last season the Roadrunners finished 3-4.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/c0fca979-1e9c-47d6-b63a-4d8596a80423.jpeg\" alt=\"2025-2026 Varsity Football team  and coaches\"\/>New Mexico School for the Deaf 2025-26 team photo from school website<\/p>\n<p>King then leaves the Lower 48 for Juneau, Alaska for a look at the Juneau-Douglas Crimson Bears. King points out that each football player raises $2,400 to defray travel costs for road games, which average about 875 miles per road contest.<\/p>\n<p>The story ends with King checking-out his first-ever girls\u2019 flag high school football game between Prattville and Spain Park in Alabama. <\/p>\n<p>Flag football is one of the fastest growing sports in the world, with 20 million players\u00a0globally, and will make its <a href=\"https:\/\/hsfaflag.com\/flag-football-is-an-official-olympic-sport-for-2028-games-in-la\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Olympic debut<\/a> in Los Angeles in\u00a02028. Recently, NFL clubs voted to support financially the development and launch of a professional flag football league.\u00a0In addition, the <a href=\"https:\/\/hsfaflag.com\/flag-football-is-now-a-ncaa-emerging-sport\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NCAA recently approved the addition of flag football to the Emerging Sports for Women<\/a> program,\u00a0an important step\u00a0in\u00a0establishing\u00a0flag as a varsity women\u2019s sport across the NCAA.\u00a0Flag football is now offered for girls at the high school level in 38 states, and\u00a0more than\u00a0100 colleges and universities have women\u2019s flag football programs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Can\u2019t wait to watch the documentary? Check it out below.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NBC\u2019s five-hour Super Bowl pregame coverage for the game between the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[7,2682,9996,505],"class_list":{"0":"post-738598","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-high-school-football","10":"tag-peter-king","11":"tag-super-bowl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116036462902361768","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}