{"id":412523,"date":"2023-02-13T21:10:54","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T02:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=412523"},"modified":"2023-02-13T21:10:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T02:10:54","slug":"former-cardinals-guard-dobler-dies-at-age-of-72","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/former-cardinals-guard-dobler-dies-at-age-of-72\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Cardinals guard Dobler dies at age of 72"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary Arizona Cardinals guard Conrad Dobler, known as the NFL\u2019s dirtiest player during his era, died at the age of 72 on Monday, the team announced.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our hearts go out to the family, friends and former teammates of Conrad Dobler. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yzO57UzHls\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/yzO57UzHls<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Arizona Cardinals (@AZCardinals) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AZCardinals\/status\/1625209663540314113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 13, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>No cause of death was given.<\/p>\n<p>Dobler was infamously regarded as the league&#8217;s dirtiest player in the game during his time, a title he did not shy away from, as he told Sports Illustrated in a 1977 article, &#8220;I&#8217;ll do anything I can get away with to protect my quarterback.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Super Sky Point to Conrad Dobler, who won his battles in the trenches by any means necessary back when football was as much war as sport. Just tweeted about him three days ago and it will be far from the last time. One of the most expert practitioners of gridiron badassery. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RIP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#RIP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vWHqdp2H7q\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/vWHqdp2H7q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Super70sSports\/status\/1625312969713123330?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Over a 10-year NFL career, Dobler embraced his role as protector, joining forces with the likes of future Hall of Famer Dan Dierdorf to form one of the best offensive lines in history on the \u201cCardiac Cardinals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 1975, they surrendered just eight sacks \u2014 then a league record \u2014 with Dobler embracing the task of keeping QB Jim Hart upright, no matter the means.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary Arizona Cardinals guard Conrad Dobler, known as the NFL\u2019s dirtiest player during his era, died at the age of 72 on Monday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":412524,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17485],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"He was infamously regarded as the league's dirtiest player in the game during his time","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412523"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=412523"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=412523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}