{"id":860795,"date":"2026-08-17T02:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T02:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/860795\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T02:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T02:04:08","slug":"john-niland-who-helped-the-dallas-cowboys-win-their-first-super-bowl-championship-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/860795\/","title":{"rendered":"John Niland, who helped the Dallas Cowboys win their first Super Bowl championship, has died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">DALLAS (AP) \u2014 John Niland, a three-time All-Pro guard who helped the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/team-page\/dallas-cowboys\/331\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/team-page\/dallas-cowboys\/331\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Cowboys<\/a> win their first Super Bowl championship, has died. He was 82.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Niland&#8217;s daughter, Haven, said he died Saturday morning in McKinney, a Dallas suburb.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Niland made 111 starts in 124 games over nine seasons with Dallas. He played for Philadelphia for one year before retiring after the 1975 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Niland made the Pro Bowl for six straight years from 1968 to 1973. He was a first-team All-Pro selection in 1969, 1971 and 1972.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He helped protect Roger Staubach when Dallas beat the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/team-page\/miami-dolphins\/345\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/team-page\/miami-dolphins\/345\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Dolphins<\/a> 24-3 in the Super Bowl on Jan. 16, 1972.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Niland, a Massachusetts native, starred at Iowa before he was taken by the Cowboys with the fifth overall selection in the 1966 draft. He was inducted into the Hawkeyes&#8217; Athletics Hall of Fame in 2006.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He is survived by Shaughn, his wife of more than 30 years, and daughters, Jordan and Haven. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\n                See AP\u2019s full NFL coverage here\n              <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS (AP) \u2014 John Niland, a three-time All-Pro guard who helped the Dallas Cowboys win their first Super&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":860796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-860795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}