{"id":24519,"date":"2022-04-09T16:21:44","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T21:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=24519"},"modified":"2022-04-09T16:21:44","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T21:21:44","slug":"sports-obit-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=24519","title":{"rendered":"Sports obit watch."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to wait until tomorrow to blog this, but since several people have sent it to me today and it is losing timeliness: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/HZjjY\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dwayne Haskins<\/a>, quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/33706232\/pittsburgh-steelers-qb-dwayne-haskins-dies-being-hit-car\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/p\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The reports I am currently seeing<\/a> say he tried to cross an Interstate highway on foot, and was hit by a dump truck. He was 24.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow is not promised to anyone&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Also: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/Pqqcs\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rayfield Wright<\/a>, former offensive lineman for the Dallas Cowboys. He was 76 and had been suffering from dementia since at least 2012.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/Pqqcs\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Referred to as \u201cBig Cat\u201d by teammates, Wright made five Super Bowl appearances in his 13 seasons with the club. He was selected first- or second-team All-Pro in six consecutive seasons and earned a spot on the NFL\u2019s All-Decade team for the 1970s.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/Pqqcs\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wright was the first offensive lineman in franchise history to earn a spot in the team\u2019s Ring of Honor and the Hall of Fame. He was followed by Larry Allen.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/Pqqcs\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">They remain the only two.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to wait until tomorrow to blog this, but since several people have sent it to me today and it is losing timeliness: Dwayne Haskins, quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers. ESPN. The reports I am currently seeing say he tried to cross an Interstate highway on foot, and was hit by a dump [&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-24519","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\/24519","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=24519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24520,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24519\/revisions\/24520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}