{"id":19429,"date":"2020-01-04T14:21:04","date_gmt":"2020-01-04T20:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=19429"},"modified":"2020-01-04T14:21:04","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T20:21:04","slug":"obit-watch-january-4-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=19429","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: January 4, 2020."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2020\/01\/02\/cincinnati-bengals-sam-wyche\/2797606001\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Wyche<\/a>, former coach of the Bengals and Buccaneers. He was 61-66 (3-2 in playoffs) in Cincinnati and 23-41 in Tampa.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/01\/03\/sports\/football\/sam-wyche-dead.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">After winning the A.F.C. Championship for only the second time in their history, the Bengals lost, 20-16, to Walsh\u2019s 49ers in Super Bowl XXIII. The 49ers sealed the victory when Montana tossed a 10-yard touchdown pass to John Taylor with 34 seconds remaining. (The Bengals have never returned to the Super Bowl.)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For the historical record: <strong>NYT<\/strong> obits for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/01\/03\/arts\/music\/jack-sheldon-dead.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Sheldon<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/01\/03\/arts\/design\/syd-mead-dead.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Syd Mead<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Wyche, former coach of the Bengals and Buccaneers. He was 61-66 (3-2 in playoffs) in Cincinnati and 23-41 in Tampa. After winning the A.F.C. Championship for only the second time in their history, the Bengals lost, 20-16, to Walsh\u2019s 49ers in Super Bowl XXIII. The 49ers sealed the victory when Montana tossed a 10-yard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,16,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","category-obits","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19430,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19429\/revisions\/19430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}