greatest Bears player of all-time<\/a> by Hall of Fame writers Dan Pompei and Don Pierson.<\/p>\nCoinciding with the Bears\u2019 100th anniversary celebration, a statue of Walter Payton \u2014 along with one of Bears founder George Halas \u2014 will be unveiled outside of Soldier Field on September 3.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo be able to have Papa Bear and Sweetness side by side forever at Soldier Field, it\u2019s a big honor,\u201d Jarrett Payton said. \u201cI know my dad\u2019s smiling down.\u201d<\/p>\n
Walter Payton, who played for the Bears from 1975 to 1987, died November 1, 1999, from cholangiocarcinoma, a rare liver disease. He was 45.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Twenty years after the passing of Walter Payton, WGN-Channel 9 will remember the Chicago Bears legend with a primetime special hosted by his son. \u201cSavoring Sweetness: The Life & Times of Walter Payton\u201d will premiere at 7 p.m. September 4 on the Tribune Broadcasting station and stream live at WGNTV.com\/Live. It will be rebroadcast at... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22744"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22744"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22750,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22744\/revisions\/22750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}