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Football fans have mourned a heartbreaking amount of NFL stars in 2024. In February, Tony Hutson passed away at age 48, according to an obituary shared at the time. No cause of death was given.
Collapsed at the moment he wanted to take a throw-in while playing against VV Hoogezand. He died of a heart attack. 12 August 1989: Samuel Okwaraji: 24 Nigeria: Collapsed and died while playing against Angola in a World Cup Qualifier. An autopsy showed that he had an enlarged heart and high blood pressure. 20 April 1990: Vágner Bacharel: 35 ...
Darren Millane (9 August 1965 – 7 October 1991) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).. One of the toughest and finest wingmen of his era, Millane's tragic death in a car accident at the age of 26, only a year after starring in the Magpies' drought-breaking premiership, is considered one of Australian football ...
During the 1900 Big Game between the California Golden Bears and the Stanford Cardinal American football teams, a large crowd of people who did not want to pay the $1 (equivalent to $37 in 2023) admission fee gathered upon the roof of a glass blowing factory to watch for free. The roof then collapsed, severing fuel pipes and causing at least ...
The beginning of the end. The first major problem arrived in the form of a worker’s compensation bill. The state of New York sought $1.5 million from the Empire to allow the team to practice in ...
Wildcats. Metascore: 41 "Wildcats" doesn't top many best-of lists, and the 1986 comedy certainly wasn't the first to use sports as a backdrop for tackling issues of sexism, racial prejudice, and ...
The Disgrace of Gijón (Spanish: Desgracia de Gijón) was a 1982 FIFA World Cup football match played between West Germany and Austria at the El Molinón stadium in Gijón, Spain, on 25 June 1982. The match was the sixth and last game of the first-round Group 2 , with the fifth game having concluded the previous day.
Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Chuck Bednarik's 1952 playing card. Chuck Bednarik was one of the last National Football League two-way players.As the league developed, it became too physically demanding for most players to play both offense and defense and the two-way system was incrementally phased out with Bednarik being the last NFL player still playing two-ways.