{"id":285784,"date":"2026-05-27T05:51:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T05:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/285784\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T05:51:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T05:51:25","slug":"miami-dolphins-legend-manny-fernandez-dead-at-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/285784\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Dolphins Legend Manny Fernandez Dead at 79"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manny Fernandez, a star player with the Miami Dolphins when they won two Super Bowls, has died.<\/p>\n<p>Waiting for your permission to load the Instagram Media.<\/p>\n<p>The NFL team announced his passing Tuesday morning &#8230; saying in part, &#8220;His consistent and selfless contributions on the field were instrumental to the Dolphins&#8217; success.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his two Super Bowl rings &#8230; the defensive lineman was part of the legendary 1972 perfect team &#8212; as well as a member of the Ring of Honor.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260526_d169e2a6d03344f2aca5e71e3e731ce7\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:3e84cf88-22d6-4277-b3fb-9070ad0b4313\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d169e2a6d03344f2aca5e71e3e731ce7_md.jpg\" alt=\"Manny Fernandez getty 2\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fernandez attended Chabot Junior College before enrolling at Utah &#8230; and then signed with the Dolphins after he went undrafted.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/blogs\/nfl-shutdown-corner\/where-does-tom-brady-rank-among-top-10-greatest-super-bowl-players-220224285.html?guccounter=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Yahoo! Sports<\/a> ranked Fernandez as the 10th-best player of all time in Super Bowl history.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez was 79.<\/p>\n<p>RIP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manny Fernandez, a star player with the Miami Dolphins when they won two Super Bowls, has died. Waiting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,115,110,1237,10864],"class_list":["post-285784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-tmz-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285784","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=285784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}