{"id":96534,"date":"2023-10-05T18:12:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T23:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=96534"},"modified":"2023-10-05T18:12:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T23:12:49","slug":"96534","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=96534","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-desc\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/sport\/9261994\/dick-butkis-dead-chicago-bears-nfl\/\">Dick Butkus dead at age 80: NFL legend \u2018dies after medical emergency at home\u2019 as tributes pour in for Chicago Bears icon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency crews reportedly rushed to the former linebacker&#8217;s home in Malibu around 12.51pm, where he was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Butkus was found unresponsive by a friend who went to check on him, reported TMZ.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released on Thursday night, Butkus&#8217; family confirmed the Chicago Bears icon had died &#8220;peacefully&#8221; overnight, going on to thank his fans and loved ones for their support.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Butkus family confirms that football and entertainment legend Dick Butkus died peacefully in his sleep overnight at home in Malibu, California,&#8221; they wrote via the Bears account on X, formerly known as Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Butkus family is gathering with Dick&#8217;s wife, Helen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-footer container-fluid\">\n<div class=\"row post-meta\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dick Butkus dead at age 80: NFL legend \u2018dies after medical emergency at home\u2019 as tributes pour in for Chicago Bears icon. Emergency crews reportedly rushed to the former linebacker&#8217;s home in Malibu around 12.51pm, where he was pronounced dead at the scene. Butkus was found unresponsive by a friend who went to check on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=96534\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-passages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96535,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96534\/revisions\/96535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}