{"id":91,"date":"2010-07-23T19:02:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T02:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsports.us\/?p=91"},"modified":"2010-07-23T19:02:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T02:02:00","slug":"91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=91","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_na0H8CJUvY4\/TEpJRTR-2KI\/AAAAAAAAAHs\/Tse1sxCGzyM\/s1600\/byrd.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_na0H8CJUvY4\/TEpJRTR-2KI\/AAAAAAAAAHs\/Tse1sxCGzyM\/s320\/byrd.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Make a list of the best N.C. State football players ever, and you can guarantee this &#8211; Dennis Byrd is on it.<\/p>\n<p>Byrd died Thursday at the age of 63. You knew it was serious when Johnny Evans opened the Triangle Pigskin Preview with a prayer for Byrd.<\/p>\n<p>Byrd, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gopack.com\/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=9200&amp;ATCLID=204970650\">as detailed here in GoPack.com, <\/a>was State&#8217;s first two-time All-America and the anchor of the White Shoes defense on the famous 1967 team. It&#8217;s probably fair to say that after Roman Gabriel, he was the second great Wolfpack player on a national level.<\/p>\n<p>Best player in Wolfpack history? That&#8217;s open for debate, but the names to consider on my list would be Philip Rivers, Roman Gabriel, Ted Brown, Jim Ritcher, Torry Holt, Dave Buckey, Mario Williams, Erik Kramer, Dick Christy, Mike Quick, Russell Wilson &#8230; and Dennis Byrd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make a list of the best N.C. State football players ever, and you can guarantee this &#8211; Dennis Byrd is on it. Byrd died Thursday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}