{"id":29149,"date":"2024-12-25T21:46:32","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T21:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/25\/bill-bergey-all-pro-linebacker-and-philadelphia-eagles-legend-dies-aged-79\/"},"modified":"2024-12-25T21:46:32","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T21:46:32","slug":"bill-bergey-all-pro-linebacker-and-philadelphia-eagles-legend-dies-aged-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/25\/bill-bergey-all-pro-linebacker-and-philadelphia-eagles-legend-dies-aged-79\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Bergey, All-Pro linebacker and Philadelphia Eagles legend, dies aged 79"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Bergey, 79, dies after long fight with cancer, son says<\/li>\n<li>Five-time Pro Bowler became legend in Philadelphia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bill Bergey, a five-time Pro Bowl linebacker who played in a Super Bowl for the Philadelphia Eagles, died Wednesday, the team announced. He was 79.<\/p>\n<p>His son, Jake, posted on social media that Bergey died of cancer. Bergey, a three-time Eagles team MVP in a vote of his teammates, had been open about his fight with the disease over the last few years.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2024\/dec\/25\/bill-bergey-dead-philadelphia-eagles-linebacker\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bergey, 79, dies after long fight with cancer, son says Five-time Pro Bowler became legend in Philadelphia Bill Bergey, a five-time Pro Bowl linebacker who played in a Super Bowl for the Philadelphia Eagles, died Wednesday, the team announced. He was 79. His son, Jake, posted on social media that Bergey died of cancer. Bergey, &#8230; <a title=\"Bill Bergey, All-Pro linebacker and Philadelphia Eagles legend, dies aged 79\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/25\/bill-bergey-all-pro-linebacker-and-philadelphia-eagles-legend-dies-aged-79\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Bill Bergey, All-Pro linebacker and Philadelphia Eagles legend, dies aged 79\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}