{"id":507482,"date":"2026-10-25T12:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T12:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/507482\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T12:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T12:30:18","slug":"crivitz-native-and-raiders-super-bowl-xi-star-pete-banaszak-dies-at-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/507482\/","title":{"rendered":"Crivitz native and Raiders Super Bowl XI star Pete Banaszak dies at 82"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(WLUK) &#8212; Pete Banaszak, a Crivitz native who played running back for the Oakland Raiders, has died at 82. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raiders.com\/news\/raiders-mourn-the-passing-of-pete-banaszak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Raiders announced his passing Saturday. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Banaszak was born and raised in Crivitz. He starred in football, basketball and track at Crivitz High School. He went on to play for the University of Miami Hurricanes before the Raiders selected him in the fifth round of the 1966 AFL Draft. <\/p>\n<p>Banaszak helped Oakland win Super Bowl XI, scoring two touchdowns in the Raiders\u2019 32-14 victory over the Minnesota Vikings. He spent all 13 seasons of his professional career with the Raiders, appearing in 173 regular-season games. <\/p>\n<p>He also played a central role in the Raiders\u2019 famous \u201cHoly Roller\u201d play and set a franchise record with 16 rushing touchdowns in 1975. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polishsportshof.com\/portfolio_page\/pete-banaszak\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Banaszak was inducted into the National Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame<\/a> in 1990.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(WLUK) &#8212; Pete Banaszak, a Crivitz native who played running back for the Oakland Raiders, has died at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-507482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507482","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=507482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}