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  • #31
    Originally posted by revo View Post
    Wow, hard to believe he was last on a Cowboy sideline 10 years ago. The TV cameras loved him. RIP.


    Joe Avezzano, who helped the Dallas Cowboys win their last three Super Bowl titles as the colorful and acclaimed coach of their kicking and kick-return teams, died on Thursday in Milan, where he was the coach of the Milano Seamen of the Italian Football League. He was 68.

    The league said on its Web site that Avezzano had collapsed while running on a treadmill and had apparently died of heart failure.

    Milan, where Avezzano arrived last fall and was coaching his first season — the league plays from February to July — was the latest stop in a football life that lasted more than four decades. He was especially prominent and successful in Dallas, where he supervised special teams from 1990 to 2002.

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    It isnt hard if you watched their kick coverage teams for the last decade. Special Teams are so overlooked when talk of Champions.

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    • #32
      Wow, this one is a shocker. I remember him in college, and his nephew was the most recruited QB prospect in the country this year:

      Former Notre Dame quarterback Blair Kiel, who started as a freshman in 1980 and went on to spend parts of seven seasons in the NFL, died Sunday at 50. Kiel was at a relative's house when 911 was called and he was rushed to Columbus (Ind.) Regional Hospital, Bartholomew (Ind.) County coroner Allen Smith told the Tribune. Doctors continued to perform "advanced life support protocols" but weren't able to revive him, Smith said. Kiel, whose nephew Gunner is now a highly regarded freshman quarterback with the Irish, was pronounced dead at 12:21 p.m., according to Smith. An autopsy was performed and determined that Kiel died of natural causes, though officials also are awaiting tissue and toxicology tests. Smith said a report that Kiel died of a heart attack was "something we're not sure of yet."

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      • #33
        ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) — Ben Davidson, the hulking defensive end who starred for the Oakland Raiders in the 1960s before becoming a television pitchman, died Monday night. He was 72.

        Davidson was being treated for prostate cancer. The former Raiders coach John Madden first reported Davidson’s death on Tuesday on KCBS radio in San Francisco.

        Davidson spent 11 years in professional football, starting with the Green Bay Packers and the Washington Redskins in the N.F.L. before joining the Raiders in the American Football League in 1964.

        That was where the 6-foot-8 Davidson became famous. With his distinctive handlebar mustache, raspy voice and physical play, Davidson helped personify Al Davis’s renegade Raiders on the 1960s.

        After his playing career, Davidson became an actor with roles in films like “M*A*S*H,” “Conan the Barbarian” and “Necessary Roughness,” and he played himself in Miller Lite advertisements.
        Mr. Davidson was a hulking defensive end who starred for the Oakland Raiders in the 1960s before becoming a television pitch man.

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        • #34
          Steve Van Buren died at age 91 of pneumonia.

          Linky: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/201...?sct=nfl_t2_a9

          I was fortunate enough to see some old film of him from the late '40s. IMO, he's stil the greatest Eagles running back.

          His 1949 championship game effort is one of the finest games by a running back ever; unnoticed since he didn't score. But Van Buren ran the ball 31 times for 196 yards - all with at least two broken ribs and a broken finger on his left hand.
          I'm just here for the baseball.

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          • #35
            Originally posted by chancellor View Post
            Steve Van Buren died at age 91 of pneumonia.

            Linky: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/201...?sct=nfl_t2_a9

            I was fortunate enough to see some old film of him from the late '40s. IMO, he's stil the greatest Eagles running back.

            His 1949 championship game effort is one of the finest games by a running back ever; unnoticed since he didn't score. But Van Buren ran the ball 31 times for 196 yards - all with at least two broken ribs and a broken finger on his left hand.
            Funny thing is, in Philly, he is talked about more for what he did in the 1948 championship game, which was score the game's only TD in a blizzard-filled 7-0 slopfest.

            Brian Westbrook and Wilbert Montgomery have their touters among folks who don't know anything about pre-Super Bowl NFL history, but Van Buren is clearly the greatest Eagles RB.
            Originally posted by Kevin Seitzer
            We pinch ran for Altuve specifically to screw over Mith's fantasy team.

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            • #36
              Originally posted by Erik View Post
              Funny thing is, in Philly, he is talked about more for what he did in the 1948 championship game, which was score the game's only TD in a blizzard-filled 7-0 slopfest.
              Agree, and it's something I've never understood, other than that he scored the winning TD in that one, and didn't score in '49. But he was awesome in '49. I noticed they're downloading old championship games on locations where you can view them. If you get a chance, watch the '49 game.
              I'm just here for the baseball.

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              • #37
                Winning a 7-0 game in a blizzard is the kind of thing the stereotypical Philadelphia fan LOVES. It fits in neatly with the narrative of how they see themselves and their teams.
                Originally posted by Kevin Seitzer
                We pinch ran for Altuve specifically to screw over Mith's fantasy team.

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                • #38
                  Alex Karras died today. He had a hell of a life: football player, actor, wrestler, broadcaster, gambler (suspended for the 1963 NFL season). He was one heck of a defensive tackle.
                  Originally posted by Kevin Seitzer
                  We pinch ran for Altuve specifically to screw over Mith's fantasy team.

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                  • #39
                    Originally posted by Erik View Post
                    Alex Karras died today. He had a hell of a life: football player, actor, wrestler, broadcaster, gambler (suspended for the 1963 NFL season). He was one heck of a defensive tackle.
                    Hard to believe he's not in the Hall of Fame.

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                    • #40
                      Originally posted by revo View Post
                      Hard to believe he's not in the Hall of Fame.
                      Nor even in the Lions Ring-of-Honor.

                      I noticed this at the recent Vikings/Lions game and thought it was very odd.

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                      • #41
                        Originally posted by off_the_wall View Post
                        Nor even in the Lions Ring-of-Honor.
                        Criminal. His game on Turkey Day, 1962 is stuff of legend, even in Green Bay. My wife's uncle still claims it's the greatest single defensive game played by a DL against the Packers he's ever seen.
                        I'm just here for the baseball.

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                        • #42
                          It has to be because of the gambling thing.

                          The HOF, anyway. The Lions, could be because of the Fords' ignorance/ineptitude.
                          Originally posted by Kevin Seitzer
                          We pinch ran for Altuve specifically to screw over Mith's fantasy team.

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                          • #43
                            Pro Football Talk:
                            There’s a sad note this morning in the world of football.* Chandler Williams, a seventh-round pick of the Vikings in 2007 and a current member of the Arena Football League’s Tampa Bay Storm, died on Saturday while playing flag football.

                            According to Local10.com, Williams died of natural causes while participating in a flag-football tournament in Florida.

                            “We are shocked and saddened to hear about the passing of Chandler,” Tampa Bay Storm president Derrick Brooks said.* “Our heart and prayers go out to his fiancée Vanitia Harrigan, daughter Tori Williams and the rest of his family.”

                            Williams, 27, played college football at Florida International University.* He also spent time with the Miami Dolphins, Atlanta Falcons, Kansas City Chiefs, and the CFL’s Toronto Argonauts.

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                            • #44
                              This is extremely bizarre:

                              Former Panther & Bronco QB Jeff Lewis passed away last week at age 39, and two days later, Panthers center Bryan Stoltenberg died at age 40. Both were on the 2000 Panthers.

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                              • #45
                                Former Notre Dame All-American OL Mirko Jurkovic died from colon cancer, age 42. Sadly, he's the 6th member of the 1988 championship team to have passed away.

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