{"id":1048271,"date":"2026-09-07T05:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T05:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1048271\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T05:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T05:36:14","slug":"matt-suhey-former-1985-chicago-bears-fullback-dies-at-68-reports-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1048271\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Suhey, former 1985 Chicago Bears fullback, dies at 68, reports say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Chicago Bears fullback and 1985 Super Bowl champion Matt Suhey has died, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>He was 68 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Suhey scored the first touchdown in Super Bowl XX against the Patriots in 1986.<\/p>\n<p>Not only was he Walter Payton&#8217;s backfield mate, but his close friend.<\/p>\n<p>Suhey played at Penn State before playing 10 seasons in the NFL, all in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Chicago Bears fullback and 1985 Super Bowl champion Matt Suhey has died, according to reports. He was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1048272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,531,5386,1818,21686],"class_list":["post-1048271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-bears","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-super-bowl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117228141647822044","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1048272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}