{"id":386212,"date":"2025-09-21T20:02:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T20:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/386212\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T20:02:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T20:02:20","slug":"hanford-dixon-and-frank-minnifield-are-the-dawg-pound-captains-for-week-3-against-the-packers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/386212\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanford Dixon and Frank Minnifield are the Dawg Pound Captains for Week 3 against the Packers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Browns cornerbacks Hanford Dixon and Frank Minnifield pumped up Huntington Bank Field before the Browns&#8217; Week 3 matchup against the Packers.<\/p>\n<p>Dixon and Minnifield each smashed Packers-themed guitars before kickoff as the Browns prepared to play Green Bay and celebrate 40 years of the Dawg Pound.<\/p>\n<p>Dixon and Minnifield helped establish the tradition of the Dawg Pound in 1985. As a way to fire up the defensive line and get the defense going, Dixon told them to imagine the quarterback as a cat and them as a dog. To remind them of their responsibility, Dixon and Minnifield would bark at the defensive line. Soon enough, the fans followed suit, and the Dawg Pound was born.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Browns cornerbacks Hanford Dixon and Frank Minnifield pumped up Huntington Bank Field before the Browns&#8217; Week 3&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[67460,86,85,54,2337,67459,198,7,65539,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-386212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-browns","8":"tag-adpartnerdawg_pound_captain_article","9":"tag-browns","10":"tag-cleveland","11":"tag-cleveland-browns","12":"tag-clevelandbrowns","13":"tag-dawg-pound-captain-article","14":"tag-featured","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-green-bay-packers-at-cleveland-browns-2025-reg-3","17":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115244076367588088","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386212","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=386212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}