{"id":563663,"date":"2025-11-29T18:52:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T18:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/563663\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T18:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T18:52:12","slug":"legendary-detroit-lions-cornerback-lem-barney-passes-away-at-the-age-of-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/563663\/","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Detroit Lions cornerback Lem Barney passes away at the age of 80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary Detroit Lions defensive back Lem Barney has died, according to a statement from the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He was 80.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Gulfport, Mississippi, Barney played 11 years for the Detroit Lions and was a legend at Jackson State, an HBCU where he had 26 interceptions in three seasons.<\/p>\n<p>He was drafted by the Detroit Lions in 1967 and was named defensive rookie of the year and later named to the NFL&#8217;s All-Decade team of the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>During his 11 seasons with the Lions, he appeared in 140 games and had 56 interceptions and seven touchdowns, as well as 17 fumble recoveries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Legendary Detroit Lions defensive back Lem Barney has died, according to a statement from the Pro Football Hall&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[4495,146,113,4496,2506,7,147,6,4497],"class_list":{"0":"post-563663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-lions","8":"tag-7-action-news-sports","9":"tag-detroit","10":"tag-detroit-lions","11":"tag-detroit-sports","12":"tag-detroitlions","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-lions","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-wxyz-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115634500183690071","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563663","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=563663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}