{"id":16679,"date":"2025-08-24T17:48:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T22:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=16679"},"modified":"2025-08-25T06:12:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T11:12:33","slug":"interview-2025-ehs-football-preview-with-head-coach-brett-hefner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/football\/16679-interview-2025-ehs-football-preview-with-head-coach-brett-hefner\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERVIEW: 2025 EHS Football Preview with Head Coach Brett Hefner"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>Another season of EHS Flaming Hearts football is right around the corner and Head Coach Brett Hefner, back for an 11th year at the helm of the Effingham program, was nice enough to spend some time talking about his 2025 team and the upcoming year:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Tg-fJki7LvQ?si=oi79k72gS9N7ju3y\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Effingham opens up the season Friday, Aug. 29, at 7 p.m. at home against Breese Central. Of course, Coach Hefner and the boys would love to see you out at Klosterman Field in Washington Savings Bank Stadium, but if you can\u2019t make it \u2026 no worries! Matt Robinson and Dustin White will have you covered every Friday night with the 6:45 p.m. pregame show and 7 p.m. kickoff on your home for Hearts Football, 979 XFM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another season of EHS Flaming Hearts football is right around the corner and Head Coach Brett Hefner, back for an 11th year at the helm of the Effingham program, was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-16679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","tag-sports-featured"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>INTERVIEW: 2025 EHS Football Preview with Head Coach Brett Hefner - 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