{"id":182353,"date":"2025-08-28T12:02:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T12:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/182353\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T12:02:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T12:02:14","slug":"thursday-night-lights-kicks-off-with-johnson-judson-ready-for-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/182353\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Night Lights kicks off with Johnson, Judson ready for showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO &#8211; Our 17th season of Little Caesar&#8217;s Thursday Night Lights kicks off tonight with a showdown you don&#8217;t want to  miss.<\/p>\n<p>Two teams are coming in with big aspirations this year. <\/p>\n<p>Johnson is looking to win its second league title in as many years, while Judson is aiming to return to the playoffs after a string of close losses last season.<\/p>\n<p>Adding to the excitement, two old friends will face off on the field: TP Miller from Johnson and Mark Soto from the Rockets. The Jags beat Judson in a one-score game last year, and it\u2019s likely we\u2019ll see another tight matchup.<\/p>\n<p>Both coaches are leaving nothing on the table. Neither team is content with simply making the playoffs\u2014both are hoping for long, deep runs this season.<\/p>\n<p>THURSDAY NIGHT LIGHTS<\/p>\n<p>Johnson Jaguars<br \/>vs.<br \/>Judson Rockets<br \/>7 p.m. TONIGHT<br \/>at Rutledge Stadium<\/p>\n<p>SNEAKERS &amp; CLEATS<\/p>\n<p>Don Harris is back from vacation and ready to sound off on all the latest Project Marvel drama &#8211; what\u2019s next for the Spurs\u2019 proposed arena, the mayor\u2019s pushback, and why the city\u2019s future may hang in the balance. Matt Roy and Chuck Miketinac join him to break it all down.<\/p>\n<p>TNL BAND CONTEST<\/p>\n<p>Our Thursday Night Lights Band Grant sponsored by CHRISTUS Children&#8217;s will give our fans the opportunity to nominate their favorite participating TNL band. On November 3, The band with the most nominations will be selected to win $5,000 in grant money!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/features\/contests\/woaikabb-the-cwsa-thursday-night-lights-band-grant#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/features\/contests\/woaikabb-the-cwsa-thursday-night-lights-band-grant#\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE<\/a> for rules.<\/p>\n<p>Participating High Schools:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Johnson High School<\/li>\n<li>Judson High School<\/li>\n<li>Brennan High School<\/li>\n<li>Smithson Valley High School<\/li>\n<li>John Jay High School<\/li>\n<li>South San High School<\/li>\n<li>Alamo Heights High School<\/li>\n<li>Clemens High School<\/li>\n<li>Wagner High School<\/li>\n<li>MacArthur High School<\/li>\n<li>Clark High School<\/li>\n<li>Churchill High School<\/li>\n<li>Steele High School<\/li>\n<li>Sam Houston High School<\/li>\n<li>Burbank High School<\/li>\n<li>Southwest High School<\/li>\n<li>Brandeis High School<\/li>\n<li>Regan High School<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO &#8211; Our 17th season of Little Caesar&#8217;s Thursday Night Lights kicks off tonight with a showdown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":182354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,10858,102694,102695,102697,1425,102696,7202,7203,358,67941,102698,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-182353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-high-schools","10":"tag-johnson-jaguars","11":"tag-judson-rockets","12":"tag-league-title","13":"tag-playoffs","14":"tag-rutledge-stadium","15":"tag-san-antonio","16":"tag-sanantonio","17":"tag-texas","18":"tag-thursday-night-lights","19":"tag-tnl-band-contest","20":"tag-tx","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115106293406133201","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}