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He also intercepted six passes for 139 yards with a longest return of 38 yards. At season's end, Duerson was named first-team All-Pro by Pro Football Weekly, the Pro Football Writers Association and The Sporting News and second-team All-Pro by the Associated Press. In 1987, Duerson was the recipient of the NFL Man of the Year Award. In his 11 ...
[23] [24] In some cases, damage to players' brains contributes to severe alcoholism leading to death. [25] [26] Two former NFL Man of the Year winners suffering from CTE symptoms have committed suicide by shooting themselves in the chest, with the intent of leaving their brains intact to be studied for the damage inflicted by football. [27] [28]
This is a list of players of gridiron football (American football and Canadian football) players who died while still on a team roster. Included are players in professional and college football who have died of any cause. For professional football players, the most common cause of death is vehicle crashes.
The confounding final 32 seconds of the game that saw the Bears fail to use their final timeout as they were driving down 23-20 to set up a game-tying field goal did not just go over poorly with ...
The Chicago Bears linebacking great, who died Thursday at 80, was considered the toughest guy in a sport in which hitting is not optional. ... After the death on the field of Lions receiver Chuck ...
Butkus was a linebacker for the Bears from 1965 to 1978 after playing college foot Dylan Buell/Getty Images Chicago Bears legend and former player Dick Butkus died on Wednesday, October 4. He was 80.
Lewis pled down to obstruction in exchange for his testimony after a bar fight he was involved in left two people dead. Lewis was named Super Bowl MVP the year following his arrest. On April 29, 2004, Lewis reached an out-of-court settlement with four-year-old India Lollar, born months after the death of her father Richard, pre-empting a ...
Chicago Bears linebacker Dick Butkus on the bench during a game against the Pittsburgh Steelers at Soldier Field on Sept. 19, 1971. Butkus, a fearsome middle linebacker for the Bears, has died ...