{"id":23677,"date":"2014-09-18T22:19:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T22:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/hester-breaks-deion-sanders-return-td-record\/"},"modified":"2014-09-19T06:50:34","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T06:50:34","slug":"hester-breaks-deion-sanders-return-td-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/hester-breaks-deion-sanders-return-td-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Hester breaks Deion Sanders&#8217; return TD record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta, GA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Atlanta wide receiver Devin Hester passed Hall of Famer and former Falcons cornerback Deion Sanders for most return touchdowns in NFL history during Thursday&#8217;s game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.<\/p>\n<p>With a 62-yard punt return for a touchdown in the second quarter, Hester broke a tie with Sanders at 19 career touchdown returns. Hester now has the record all to himself with 20.<\/p>\n<p>Hester paid tribute to Sanders with an extended high step into the end zone. Sanders, now a television analyst, was in attendance at the Georgia Dome.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was so happy,&#8221; said Hester. &#8220;He said he almost pulled a hamstring sprinting toward the end zone with me. I love that guy, man. He was very emotional as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the game, Hester took an end around and went 20 yards for the first rushing touchdown of his career. A three-time Pro Bowler, Hester signed with the Falcons in the offseason. He spent the first eight years of his career with the Chicago Bears.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcons won the game 56-14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta, GA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Atlanta wide receiver Devin Hester passed Hall of Famer and former Falcons cornerback Deion Sanders for most return touchdowns in NFL history during Thursday&#8217;s game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. With a 62-yard punt return for a touchdown in the second quarter, Hester broke a tie with Sanders at 19 career [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18,107,108],"class_list":["post-23677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-falcons","tag-falcons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23681,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23677\/revisions\/23681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}