{"id":208342,"date":"2025-12-28T19:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T19:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/208342\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T19:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T19:15:07","slug":"kimberly-dunlap-kane-serves-as-dawg-pound-captain-ahead-of-week-17-vs-the-steelers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/208342\/","title":{"rendered":"Kimberly Dunlap Kane serves as Dawg Pound Captain ahead of Week 17 vs. the Steelers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the Browns prepared to introduce the Dawg Pound Captain for the final home game of the 2025 season, <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Browns\/status\/2005348606652629226\" rel=\"nofollow\">a special message first appeared on the video board<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Browns Legend QB Bernie Kosar shared a message with fans in attendance about Bryce Dunlap, a Browns fan and the person who Kosar received a liver transplant from. He then introduced his mother Kimberly Dunlap Kane.<\/p>\n<p>Kane then walked out onto the field to set the tone for the Browns&#8217; final home game of the season against the Steelers, and inspired the crowd at Huntington Bank Field. Kane smashed a black and yellow Steelers-themed guitar before kickoff as Cleveland prepared to play Pittsburgh in Week 17.<\/p>\n<p>Bryce Dunlap passed away on Nov. 16. Kosar had been waiting for a liver transplant after being diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver and Parkinson&#8217;s disease in 2024. Kosar received the transplant on Nov. 17 and was discharged from the hospital on Nov. 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the Browns prepared to introduce the Dawg Pound Captain for the final home game of the 2025&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[116329,116328,1492,85,46,115165,105],"class_list":["post-208342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-adpartnerdawg_pound_captain_article","tag-dawg-pound-captain-article","tag-featured","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-pittsburgh-steelers-at-cleveland-browns-2025-reg-17","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}