{"id":1083,"date":"2020-11-13T23:52:08","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T23:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1083"},"modified":"2025-09-29T05:45:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T05:45:03","slug":"paul-hornung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1083","title":{"rendered":"Paul Hornung"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2026be4239010200d-pi\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Paul hornung 4\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e2026be4239010200d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2026be4239010200d-200wi\" style=\"width: 180px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"Paul hornung 4\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gone at 84. Pretty famous in his day -&#0160; &#8211; as a football player, party guy, and gambler. Went from Notre Dame, where he was quarterback and won the Heisman Trophy,&#0160; to Green Bay Packers where he wore #5 and was converted to a halfback. He was a<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Triple-threat_man\"> triple threat player,<\/a> running, passing and kicking with the Packers from 1957-1966. Oh, and he was also a petty good receiver out of the backfield. Hornung was suspended from the NFL for the 1963 season for gambling.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/11\/13\/paul-hornung-dead-at-84\/\">&quot;Obviously the Packers have lost another legend,\u201d Packers coach Matt LaFleur said. \u201cThat\u2019s four for the year with him, Adderley, Willie Wood and Willie Davis. Anytime you lose legends like that, it\u2019s always a sad day. They\u2019re a big reason why the Green Bay Packers are the Green Bay Packers.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20263e97740eb200b-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Paul hornung 1\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e20263e97740eb200b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20263e97740eb200b-300wi\" style=\"width: 271px;\" title=\"Paul hornung 1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2026bdea49cfc200c-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hornung originally 3\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e2026bdea49cfc200c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2026bdea49cfc200c-300wi\" style=\"width: 275px;\" title=\"Hornung originally 3\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gone at 84. Pretty famous in his day -&#0160; &#8211; as a football player, party guy, and gambler. Went from Notre Dame, where he was quarterback and won the Heisman Trophy,&#0160; to Green Bay Packers where he wore #5 and was converted to a halfback. He was a triple threat player, running, passing and kicking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7505,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions\/7505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}