{"id":198,"date":"2007-12-07T14:24:42","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T19:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2007\/12\/07\/bucs-bryant-named-man-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2017-01-31T10:40:08","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T16:40:08","slug":"bucs-bryant-named-man-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2007\/12\/bucs-bryant-named-man-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucs\u2019 Bryant named Man of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-19539\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/bryant.jpg\" alt=\"bryant\" width=\"226\" height=\"129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/bryant.jpg 472w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/bryant-300x172.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/>A day after kicking a career-best four field goals to lead the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a 19-13 win, former Baylor kicker Matt Bryant was named the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buccaneers.com\/news\/newsdetail.aspx?newsid=6157\" target=\"_blank\">Bucs&#8217; 2007 Man of the Year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The award honors players not just for their on-the-field actions &#8212; though one could certainly make a case for Bryant on those numbers alone as the most accurate kicker in Tampa Bay history &#8212; but also for their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flatoday.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20071130\/SPORTS\/711300351\/1002\/SPORTS\" target=\"_blank\">work in the community<\/a>. Bryant, who played two seasons at Baylor (1997-98), has actively worked with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marchofdimes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">March of Dimes<\/a> since his son Tre was born prematurely last year in addition to helping with several charity events. He is one of 32 nominees for the NFL&#8217;s Walter Payton Man of the Year Award.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Matt!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day after kicking a career-best four field goals to lead the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a 19-13 win, former Baylor kicker Matt Bryant was named the Bucs&#8217; 2007 Man of the Year. The award honors players not just for their on-the-field actions &#8212; though one could certainly make a case for Bryant on those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-athletics","category-extraordinary-stories","category-honors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}