{"id":9724,"date":"2014-03-25T15:36:53","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T19:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=9724"},"modified":"2014-03-25T15:36:53","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T19:36:53","slug":"bills-owner-ralph-wilson-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/03\/25\/bills-owner-ralph-wilson-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Bills owner Ralph Wilson passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9725\" alt=\"ralphwilson\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/03\/ralphwilson.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/03\/ralphwilson.jpg 660w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/03\/ralphwilson-300x145.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/03\/ralphwilson-50x24.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Buffalo Bills owner and founder Ralph Wilson passed away on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson, 95, was the oldest owner in the NFL. In 2009 he was inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to establishing the Bills. Wilson was a co-founder of the American Football League. He is credited with initiating talks in 1965 with Baltimore Colts owner Carroll Rosenbloom that led to the AFL-NFL merger.<\/p>\n<p>With Wilson passing away there will be numerous questions about the future of the Bills.<\/p>\n<p>The Bills won consecutive AFL championships after the 1964 and &#8217;65 seasons. \u00a0They had four trips to the Super Bowl from 1990-1993.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buffalo Bills owner and founder Ralph Wilson passed away on Tuesday. Wilson, 95, was the oldest owner in the NFL. In 2009 he was inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame. In addition to establishing the Bills. Wilson was a co-founder of the American Football League. He is credited with initiating talks in 1965 with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[131,426,216,507],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-9724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-front","tag-nfl","tag-ralph-wilson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9726,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9724\/revisions\/9726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9724"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}