{"id":8580,"date":"2020-01-06T16:08:09","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T16:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2020\/01\/13\/sam-wyche-former-cincinnati-bengals-coach-dies-at-74\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:31:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:31:31","slug":"sam-wyche-former-cincinnati-bengals-coach-dies-at-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/sam-wyche-former-cincinnati-bengals-coach-dies-at-74\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Wyche, former Cincinnati Bengals coach, dies at 74"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the passing of former Furman University Paladin Football quarterback Sam Wyche &#8217;66, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/us.cnn.com\/2020\/01\/03\/us\/sam-wyche-dies\/index.html\">CNN remembers<\/a> <\/strong>the NFL coach who famously reminded Bengals fans that they &#8216;don&#8217;t live in Cleveland&#8217; pursuant to a rain of snowballs during a 1989 game. View the vintage video and a remembrance from Bengals quarterback Boomer Esiason in the piece. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/obituaries\/sam-wyche-innovative-and-volatile-nfl-coach-dies-at-74\/2020\/01\/04\/7a721152-2f08-11ea-9b60-817cc18cf173_story.html\">The Washington Post<\/a><\/strong> also noted Wyche&#8217;s unconventional approach to the game with his &#8220;no huddle offense,&#8221; and, in later years, Wyche&#8217;s advocacy for organ donation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the passing of former Furman University Paladin Football quarterback Sam Wyche &#8217;66, CNN remembers the NFL coach who famously reminded Bengals fans that they &#8216;don&#8217;t live in Cleveland&#8217; pursuant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":8581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,24,6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-athletics","category-in-the-news","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}