{"id":538,"date":"2023-10-05T23:45:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T23:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=538"},"modified":"2025-09-29T01:32:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T01:32:03","slug":"dick-butkus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=538","title":{"rendered":"Dick Butkus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gone at age 80. One of the all time great football linebackers. His career ended in 1973 &#8211; early because of a knee injury. Even with today&#8217;s players bigger, faster and stronger than those from Butkus era, I&#8217;m sure he would still be a star today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/dick-butkus-hall-of-famer-legendary-bears-linebacker-dead-at-80\">&#8220;Butkus was a feared middle linebacker considered to be one of the best defensive players of all time&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">&#8220;The Butkus family confirms that football and entertainment legend Dick Butkus died peacefully in his sleep overnight at home in Malibu, California,&#8221; a statement posted on X, formerly Twitter, said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0xuOHtxg4WU?si=DJLxgIJaMZn1DWrf\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gone at age 80. One of the all time great football linebackers. His career ended in 1973 &#8211; early because of a knee injury. Even with today&#8217;s players bigger, faster and stronger than those from Butkus era, I&#8217;m sure he would still be a star today. &#8220;Butkus was a feared middle linebacker considered to be [&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-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","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=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6268,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions\/6268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}