{"id":22720,"date":"2025-04-23T17:36:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T23:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=22720"},"modified":"2025-04-23T17:36:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T23:36:49","slug":"rip-mongo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/rip-mongo\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Mongo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/steve-mcmichael.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22721\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/steve-mcmichael.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"466\" height=\"689\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/steve-mcmichael.jpg 466w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/steve-mcmichael-203x300.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/a>Former Bears great and NFL Hall of Famer Steve McMichael died today aged 67.\u00a0 He was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig\u2019s disease, in January of 2021 and was removed from his ventilator and moved to hospice care earlier today.<\/p>\n<p>McMichael spent thirteen seasons as a defensive tackle with the Bears, earning All-Pro honors twice.\u00a0 He\u2019s currently second in franchise history with 92\u00bd sacks and third with 814 tackles.\u00a0 He made a franchise record 191 consecutive starts, starting in week 7 of 1981 and lasting through the end of the 1993 season and was a key part of the fabled &#8220;46&#8221; defense that led the Bears to the Super Bowl XX title.\u00a0 He was elected to the Hall of Fame last year.<\/p>\n<p>Following his football career, McMichael turned to professional wrestling, where we worked with both the then-WWF and WCW.\u00a0 In August of 2001, he appeared at Wrigley Field as the guest conductor of the seventh inning stretch.\u00a0 Prior to belting out <em>Take Me Out to the Ballgame<\/em>, McMichael had a few words for home plate umpire Angel Hernandez, who was involved in a questionable call the previous inning.\u00a0 Hernandez stared down McMichael from the field and, eventually, McMichael left the booth, having been ejected from the stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Bears great and NFL Hall of Famer Steve McMichael died today aged 67.\u00a0 He was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig\u2019s disease, in January of 2021 and was removed from his ventilator and moved to hospice care earlier today. McMichael spent thirteen seasons as a defensive tackle with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[511],"tags":[10994,11982,20,10991,10992,11979,11981,595,11980],"class_list":["post-22720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","tag-als","tag-angel-hernandez","tag-bears","tag-football-hof","tag-steve-mcmichael","tag-super-bowl-xx","tag-wcw","tag-wrigley-field","tag-wwf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22722,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22720\/revisions\/22722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}