{"id":284701,"date":"2026-05-26T13:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T13:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/284701\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T13:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T13:51:08","slug":"miami-dolphins-legend-manny-fernandez-dies-at-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/284701\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Dolphins legend Manny Fernandez dies at 79"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/miami-dolphins\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Miami Dolphins<\/a> announced early Tuesday morning that legendary player <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/news\/manny-fernandez-to-be-inducted-into-dolphins-honor-roll\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Manny Fernandez<\/a> has died at 79.<\/p>\n<p>in a post on X, the Miami Dolphins said they were deeply saddened by the passing of Fernandez, a member of the 1972 Perfect Team, a two-time Super Bowl champion, Ring of Honor member and an anchor of the Dolphins&#8217; legendary No-Name Defense.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His consistent and selfless contributions on the field were instrumental in the Dolphins&#8217; success throughout the early 1970s, particularly in the team&#8217;s three consecutive Super Bowl appearances, in which he produced some of the most memorable defensive performances in the history of the game&#8221; the Miami Dolphins <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MiamiDolphins\/status\/2059246959475482748\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Miami Dolphins went on to say that their thoughts and prayers were with his family, loved ones and teammates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Miami Dolphins announced early Tuesday morning that legendary player Manny Fernandez has died at 79. in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,1763,125,124,1064,10365,807,110],"class_list":["post-284701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-dolphins","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade","tag-national-football-league","tag-south-florida","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}