{"id":20298,"date":"2013-06-04T14:36:42","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T19:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=20298"},"modified":"2013-06-04T14:37:58","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T19:37:58","slug":"deacon-jones-rams-fearsome-foursome-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=20298","title":{"rendered":"Deacon Jones &#8211; Rams Fearsome Foursome Passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/jonesdeacon1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20300\" alt=\"jonesdeacon1\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/jonesdeacon1.jpg\" width=\"58\" height=\"58\" \/><\/a>By The Associated Press<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 David \u201cDeacon\u201d Jones, a Hall of Fame defensive end credited with terming the word sack for how he knocked down quarterbacks, has died. He was 74.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Washington Redskins say that Jones died of natural causes at his home in Southern California. Redskins general manager Bruce Allen, whose father, George, coached Jones with the Los Angeles Rams, calls Jones \u201cone of the greatest players in NFL history. Off the field, he was a true giant.\u201d<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jones was the leader of the Rams\u2019 Fearsome Foursome unit from 1961-71, and then played for San Diego for two seasons before finishing his career with Washington in 1974. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1980 and was voted to the league\u2019s 75th anniversary all-time team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By The Associated Press \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 David \u201cDeacon\u201d Jones, a Hall of Fame defensive end credited with terming the word sack for how he knocked down quarterbacks, has died. He was 74. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Washington Redskins say that Jones died of natural causes at his home in Southern California. Redskins [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20299,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20298"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20303,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20298\/revisions\/20303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}