{"id":12302,"date":"2014-10-28T15:40:32","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T19:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=12302"},"modified":"2014-10-28T15:40:32","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T19:40:32","slug":"champ-bailey-retires-from-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/10\/28\/champ-bailey-retires-from-nfl\/","title":{"rendered":"Champ Bailey retires from NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/02\/champbailey.jpg\" alt=\"champbailey\" width=\"594\" height=\"419\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8941\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/02\/champbailey.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/02\/champbailey-300x211.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/02\/champbailey-50x35.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nChamp Bailey has retired from the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>Bailey, 36, spent 15 years in the NFL between the Washington Redskins and Denver Broncos. During that time he was a 12-time Pro Bowler. After being healthy for the better part of a decade injuries began to wreck havoc on Bailey over the last two years forcing him to play in just five games last year.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Despite interest from teams, Champ Bailey has decided to retire from NFL to pursue other career opportunities, agent Jack Reale said Tues.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/527154604384194560\">October 28, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to ESPN&#8217;s Adam Schefter there were teams interested in Bailey which is surprising considering he looked gassed in the preseason while with New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p>It should only be a matter of time before Bailey earns membership into the NFL Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Champ Bailey has retired from the NFL. Bailey, 36, spent 15 years in the NFL between the Washington Redskins and Denver Broncos. During that time he was a 12-time Pro Bowler. After being healthy for the better part of a decade injuries began to wreck havoc on Bailey over the last two years forcing him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[394,51,426,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-12302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-champ-bailey","9":"tag-denver-broncos","10":"tag-front","11":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12303,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12302\/revisions\/12303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12302"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}