{"id":9684,"date":"2017-09-16T14:50:19","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T18:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=9684"},"modified":"2017-09-16T14:50:19","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T18:50:19","slug":"gameday-jmu-vs-norfolk-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=9684","title":{"rendered":"Gameday: JMU vs. Norfolk State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XkbzCTggD80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s another beautiful Saturday afternoon in the &#8216;burg. The Dukes and NSU Spartans are set to kick-off at 3:30. Most fans aren&#8217;t expecting this one to be much of a contest, but you never know. And despite two comfortable wins on the season thus far, there&#8217;s still progress to be made before CAA play begins next week.<\/p>\n<p>We realize that with Twitter, the concept of an open thread is probably past it&#8217;s prime. But whatever. We&#8217;re creatures of habit and part of our gameday routine is choosing a song to embed in a post and then settling in to root. If y&#8217;all want to chat in the comments, have at it. If you&#8217;d rather just watch, that&#8217;s cool too. We&#8217;ll be taking this one in from our respective couches and we&#8217;ll have a post gamer up tomorrow, followed by a Monday night podcast.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime. Lock the Damn Gates! Keep Rootin! Go Dukes!<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fjmusportsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D9684&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s another beautiful Saturday afternoon in the &#8216;burg. The Dukes and NSU Spartans are set to kick-off at 3:30. Most fans aren&#8217;t expecting this one to be much of a contest, but you never know. And despite two comfortable wins on the season thus far, there&#8217;s still progress to be made before CAA play begins [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8121,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=8121","url_meta":{"origin":9684,"position":0},"title":"JMU vs. Richmond College Gameday Open Thread","date":"October 24, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Get up and Start Wearing Purple Dukes fans. It's the Gameday with College Gameday. The time is 5:43 AM and I'm on may way out the door to drive to the 'burg to meet Todd. Hopefully we'll meet a lot of you there. 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