{"id":2782,"date":"2011-02-19T10:03:23","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T17:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/02\/dave-duerson-gone\/"},"modified":"2011-04-24T10:44:52","modified_gmt":"2011-04-24T17:44:52","slug":"dave-duerson-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/19\/dave-duerson-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Duerson Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagobreakingsports.com\/2011\/02\/report-duerson-died-of-self-inflicted-gunshot-wound.html\" target=\"_blank\">from Chicago Breaking Sports<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, 'Sans Serif'; line-height: normal; font-size: 13px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"page-title\" class=\"asset-name entry-title\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman'; padding: 0px\">Bears&#8217; Duerson shot himself; brain to be studied<\/h1>\n<p class=\"asset-body\" style=\"clear: both; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px\"><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chicagobreakingsports.com\/dave-duerson-187-bears.jpg\" alt=\"dave-duerson-187-bears.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" width=\"187\" height=\"251\" style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0pt; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; float: right; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px\" \/><\/span><em style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px\"><a href=\"mailto:dpompei@tribune.com\" style=\"text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; color: #990000; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">By Dan Pompei<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:deldeib@tribune.com\" style=\"text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; color: #990000; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">Duaa Eldeib<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><br style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" \/><br style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" \/>Former Chicago Bears safety Dave Duerson died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest, a source with knowledge of the situation told the Tribune.<br style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" \/><br style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>His death has been ruled a suicide, but the Miami-Dade police department has yet to make the information public.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He had informed (his family) at some point that he wanted his brain to be studied so people could learn more about the effect of brain trauma and so kids could play the game more safely in the future,&#8221; Chris Nowinski said.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, 'Sans Serif'; line-height: normal; font-size: 13px\">The Bears selected Duerson out of Notre Dame in the third round of the 1983 draft. He became a starter in 1985 and played in the first of four consecutive Pro Bowls that season. In 1987, he was named the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year. He also was one of the Bears&#8217; NFLPA representatives and was a leader through the 1987 strike.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, 'Sans Serif'; line-height: normal; font-size: 13px\"><\/span>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagobreakingsports.com\/2011\/02\/report-duerson-died-of-self-inflicted-gunshot-wound.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full article at ChicagoBreakingNews.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Chicago Breaking Sports Bears&#8217; Duerson shot himself; brain to be studied By Dan Pompei\u00a0and\u00a0Duaa Eldeib\u00a0Former Chicago Bears safety Dave Duerson died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest, a source with knowledge of the situation told the Tribune. His death has been ruled a suicide, but the Miami-Dade police department has yet to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}