{"id":999060,"date":"2020-06-20T13:19:04","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T17:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=999060"},"modified":"2026-07-25T20:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T00:40:14","slug":"redskins-to-retire-bobby-mitchells-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=999060","title":{"rendered":"Redskins to retire Bobby Mitchell&#8217;s number"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2020\/jun\/20\/redskins-retire-bobby-mitchells-number\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/twt-thumbs.washtimes.com\/media\/image\/2020\/04\/05\/obit_bobby_mitchell_football_78292_s1440x1164.jpg?33918f5db61e1c1077a8a87809186d3a6a04b88b\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The Washington Redskins will retire No. 49 to honor running back Bobby Mitchell, the team&#8217;s first black player, who died earlier this year \u2014 making him just the second Redskin to have his jersey retired in the team&#8217;s 88-year history. <\/p>\n<p>The Redskins announced the move Saturday, a day after city &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2020\/jun\/20\/redskins-retire-bobby-mitchells-number\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2020\/jun\/20\/redskins-retire-bobby-mitchells-number\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Redskins to retire Bobby Mitchell&#039;s number\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Redskins will retire No. 49 to honor running back Bobby Mitchell, the team&#8217;s first black player, who died earlier this year \u2014 making him&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-redskins","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-87-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999060","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=999060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1905891,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999060\/revisions\/1905891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=999060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=999060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=999060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}