{"id":729,"date":"2026-09-19T04:16:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T04:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stjosephconnect.com\/?sjc_news=video-savannah-savages-honor-area-teen-as-an-honorary-football-team-captain"},"modified":"2026-09-19T04:16:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T04:16:02","slug":"video-savannah-savages-honor-area-teen-as-an-honorary-football-team-captain","status":"publish","type":"sjc_news","link":"https:\/\/www.stjosephconnect.com\/?sjc_news=video-savannah-savages-honor-area-teen-as-an-honorary-football-team-captain","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Savannah Savages honor area teen as an honorary football team captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media__item media__item--youtube_vimeo\">\n<div class=\"video__embed\">\n<div id=\"player_3fc1b16f-a366-47fd-9671-3a056b9e94a7\"><\/div>\n<p>var cachebuster = Math.round(new Date().getTime() \/ 1000); var player = new Playerjs({id:&#8221;player_3fc1b16f-a366-47fd-9671-3a056b9e94a7&#8243;, file:&#8221;https:\/\/vz-b57a14b4-77c.b-cdn.net\/3fc1b16f-a366-47fd-9671-3a056b9e94a7\/playlist.m3u8&#8243;, poster:&#8221;https:\/\/vz-b57a14b4-77c.b-cdn.net\/3fc1b16f-a366-47fd-9671-3a056b9e94a7\/thumbnail_3d319777.jpg&#8221;, label:&#8221;VIDEO: Savannah Savages honor area teen as an honorary football team captain&#8221; , galabels:{&#8220;video_url&#8221;:&#8221;https:\/\/vz-b57a14b4-77c.b-cdn.net\/3fc1b16f-a366-47fd-9671-3a056b9e94a7\/playlist.m3u8&#8243;,&#8221;category&#8221;:&#8221;news&#8221;,&#8221;video_group&#8221;:&#8221;vod&#8221;}, vast_replace:{&#8220;[wpcategory]&#8221;:&#8221;news&#8221;,&#8221;[wprand]&#8221;:&#8221;&#8221;+cachebuster+&#8221;&#8221;}});<\/p><\/div><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kq2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/HUNTER-SCREENSHOT.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SAVANNAH, Mo. (KQTV) &#8212; Sometimes, football is about so much more than the game itself, as the Savannah football team celebrated 13-year-old Hunter\u2019s birthday tonight by making him a team captain for their homecoming game against Christ Prep.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hunter was recently diagnosed with a brain tumor and is recovering from two surgeries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Caylor Schrick, Kaiden Phillips and Chase Bell wanted to make Hunter\u2019s night extra special. They invited him to help Coach Schrick during pregame and lead the team as a captain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kq2.com\/news\/2026\/09\/18\/video-savannah-savages-honor-area-teen-as-an-honorary-football-team-captain\/\">VIDEO: Savannah Savages honor area teen as an honorary football team captain<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kq2.com\">KQ2 | St. Joseph, Missouri News, Weather &amp; Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAVANNAH, Mo. (KQTV) &#8212; Sometimes, football is about so much more than the game itself, as the Savannah football team celebrated 13-year-old Hunter\u2019s birthday tonight by making him a team captain for their homecoming game against&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":730,"template":"","class_list":["post-729","sjc_news","type-sjc_news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjosephconnect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/sjc_news\/729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjosephconnect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/sjc_news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjosephconnect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/sjc_news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjosephconnect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjosephconnect.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}