{"id":5050,"date":"2025-07-12T20:16:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T20:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/5050\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T20:16:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T20:16:03","slug":"former-cardinals-lt-luis-sharpe-a-3-time-pro-bowler-dies-at-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/5050\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Cardinals LT Luis Sharpe, a 3-time Pro Bowler, dies at 65"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jul 12, 2025, 02:23 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>Longtime <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/ari\/arizona-cardinals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cardinals<\/a> left tackle Luis Sharpe, a three-time Pro Bowl selection, has died. He was 65.<\/p>\n<p>Sharpe played all 13 of his NFL seasons with the franchise in St. Louis (1982-87) and Arizona (1988-94).<\/p>\n<p>Sharpe&#8217;s widow, Tameka Williams-Sharpe, shared the news of his passing Saturday on social media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With deep sorrow and abiding love, I share that my beloved husband, Luis Sharpe, has passed away,&#8221; she wrote, per The Arizona Republic. &#8220;His strength, love, and faith were a light to all who knew him. I am grateful for every moment we shared and for the many prayers and kindnesses extended to our family.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Though my heart is heavy, I trust that Luis is now resting in God&#8217;s eternal peace. Please continue to keep our family lifted in prayer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Born in Havana, Sharpe grew up in Detroit and became a first-round draft pick (16th overall) in 1982 out of UCLA.<\/p>\n<p>He started all 189 of his regular-season games with the Cardinals and made the Pro Bowl in 1987, 1988 and 1989.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 12, 2025, 02:23 PM ET Longtime Cardinals left tackle Luis Sharpe, a three-time Pro Bowl selection, has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-5050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}