{"id":332984,"date":"2026-05-26T15:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T15:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/332984\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T15:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T15:43:08","slug":"miami-dolphins-legend-oakland-native-manny-fernandez-dies-at-79-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/332984\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Dolphins legend, Oakland native Manny Fernandez dies at 79 \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Miami Dolphins defensive lineman and Oakland native Manny Fernandez has died at the age of 79, the team announced on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez was a key member of the Dolphins\u2019 famed \u201cNo-Name Defense,\u201d which led Miami to the only undefeated and untied season in NFL history.<\/p>\n<p>The Dolphins finished 17-0 during the 1972 season and went on to win the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez was born in Oakland and attended San Lorenzo High School.<\/p>\n<p>He played on all three Dolphins Super Bowl teams in the early 1970s and helped Miami win championships in 1972 and 1973.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Miami Dolphins defensive lineman and Oakland native Manny Fernandez has died at the age of 79, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144,127],"class_list":["post-332984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}