{"id":39684,"date":"2025-04-24T13:05:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T13:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/nfl-hall-of-famer-and-bears-legend-steve-mongo-mcmichael-dies-at-67\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T13:05:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T13:05:56","slug":"nfl-hall-of-famer-and-bears-legend-steve-mongo-mcmichael-dies-at-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/nfl-hall-of-famer-and-bears-legend-steve-mongo-mcmichael-dies-at-67\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Hall of Famer and Bears legend Steve \u2018Mongo\u2019 McMichael dies at 67"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Former defensive tackle had been diagnosed with ALS<\/li>\n<li>Entered into wrestling career after football retirement<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Steve \u201cMongo\u201d McMichael, a star defensive tackle on the Bears\u2019 1985 Super Bowl championship team who remained a fixture in the Windy City for decades, died on Wednesday after being diagnosed with ALS. He was 67.<\/p>\n<p>An All-Pro in 1985 and 1987, McMichael was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2024. He played in a franchise-record 191 consecutive games from 1981 to 1993 and ranks second to Richard Dent on the Bears\u2019 career sacks list with 92.5. His final NFL season was with Green Bay in 1994.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/apr\/24\/nfl-hall-of-famer-and-bears-legend-steve-mongo-mcmichael-dies-at-67\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former defensive tackle had been diagnosed with ALS Entered into wrestling career after football retirement Steve \u201cMongo\u201d McMichael, a star defensive tackle on the Bears\u2019 1985 Super Bowl championship team who remained a fixture in the Windy City for decades, died on Wednesday after being diagnosed with ALS. He was 67. An All-Pro in 1985 &#8230; <a title=\"NFL Hall of Famer and Bears legend Steve \u2018Mongo\u2019 McMichael dies at 67\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/nfl-hall-of-famer-and-bears-legend-steve-mongo-mcmichael-dies-at-67\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about NFL Hall of Famer and Bears legend Steve \u2018Mongo\u2019 McMichael dies at 67\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-39684","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\/39684","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}