{"id":210492,"date":"2025-07-16T02:38:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T02:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/210492\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T02:38:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T02:38:14","slug":"syracuse-football-alum-art-monk-to-have-jersey-retired-by-washington-commanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/210492\/","title":{"rendered":"Syracuse Football Alum Art Monk to have jersey retired by Washington Commanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SYRACUSE, N.Y. \u2014 Former Syracuse football All-American Art Monk will receive the NFL&#8217;s ultimate honor &#8211; his jersey will be retired by the Washington Commanders in the upcoming 2025 NFL season. <\/p>\n<p>Monk started out as a running back for the Orange in 1976, ultimately switching to a wide receiver. A four-year letterman with the Orange, he was drafted in the first round of the 1980 NFL Draft by the team that was then called the Washington Redskins.<\/p>\n<p>The star receiver found much success in the NFL, racking up several accolades including three Pro Bowl appearances, two All-Pro selections, and five one-thousand yard seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Monk won three Super Bowl championships in Washington between 1982-1991.<\/p>\n<p>Monk retired after the 1995 season and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Commanders will have the retirement ceremony on November 2nd during their Sunday Night Football game against the Seattle Seahawks. <\/p>\n<p>The Syracuse alum will have his No. 81 celebrated with greats such as Sammy Baugh and Sean Taylor, cementing his impressive legacy in football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SYRACUSE, N.Y. \u2014 Former Syracuse football All-American Art Monk will receive the NFL&#8217;s ultimate honor &#8211; his jersey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2069],"tags":[39525,427,7,10858,44347,6,4912,505,8651,855,111,2480],"class_list":{"0":"post-210492","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-commanders","8":"tag-art-monk","9":"tag-commanders","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-hall-of-fame","12":"tag-jersey-retired","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-pro-bowl","15":"tag-super-bowl","16":"tag-syracuse-football","17":"tag-washington","18":"tag-washington-commanders","19":"tag-washingtoncommanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114860596252223305","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}