{"id":255008,"date":"2022-08-24T10:55:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T15:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=255008"},"modified":"2022-08-24T10:57:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T15:57:11","slug":"hall-of-fame-chiefs-quarterback-len-dawson-dies-at-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=255008","title":{"rendered":"Hall of Fame Chiefs quarterback Len Dawson dies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) \u2014 Hall of Fame quarterback Len Dawson, who helped the Kansas City Chiefs to a Super Bowl title, died Wednesday. He was 87. <strong>The MVP of the Chiefs\u2019 victory over the Vikings in January 1970 <\/strong>entered hospice care on Aug. 12. \u201cLenny the Cool\u201d went into the Hall of Fame as a player in 1987. He also was inducted as a broadcaster in 2012. Dawson spent several decades working on local TV broadcast while also doing color analysis for NBC and hosting HBO&#8217;s iconic \u201cInside the NFL.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) \u2014 Hall of Fame quarterback Len Dawson, who helped the Kansas City Chiefs to a Super Bowl title, died Wednesday. He was 87. The MVP of the Chiefs\u2019 victory over the Vikings in January 1970 entered hospice care on Aug. 12. \u201cLenny the Cool\u201d went into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":255011,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=255008"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255014,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255008\/revisions\/255014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/255011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=255008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=255008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=255008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}