{"id":22744,"date":"2019-08-21T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T14:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=22744"},"modified":"2019-08-21T09:25:07","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T14:25:07","slug":"savoring-sweetness-wgn-primetime-special-honor-walter-payton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2019\/08\/21\/savoring-sweetness-wgn-primetime-special-honor-walter-payton\/","title":{"rendered":"'Savoring Sweetness': WGN primetime special to honor Walter Payton"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Walter Payton<\/p><\/div>\n

Twenty years after the passing of Walter Payton, WGN-Channel 9<\/a> will remember the Chicago Bears legend with a primetime special hosted by his son.<\/p>\n

\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.<\/a> It will be rebroadcast at 10 p.m. September 7 on WGN and at noon September 8 on CLTV.<\/p>\n

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Jarrett Payton<\/p><\/div>\n

Payton\u2019s son, WGN sports reporter Jarrett Payton, will interview Jim McMahon, Dan Hampton, Steve McMichael, Gary Fencik and Barry Sanders, among other teammates, family and friends, on the famed running back\u2019s legacy.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year Walter Payton was named the greatest Bears player of all-time<\/a> by Hall of Fame writers Dan Pompei and Don Pierson.<\/p>\n

Coinciding 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}]}}