RIP Bubba "Hightower" Smith.
AFP
Former NFL defensive star Bubba Smith, who launched a successful acting career after his playing days, has died at the age of 66, authorities said Wednesday.
Charles "Bubba" Smith was found dead Wednesday at his home in suburban Baldwin Hills, police and the Los Angeles County coroner's office said.
Los Angeles police officer Gregory Baek said Smith was thought to have died of natural causes, but the coroner's office had not yet made a final determination of the cause of death.
Smith, a Texas native, was drafted first overall by the then-Baltimore Colts in 1967. He spent five NFL seasons with the Colts, winning a Super Bowl title with the club at he end of the 1970 season.
He spent two seasons each with Oakland and Houston, leaving the league in 1976 after twice earning Pro Bowl honors.
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Thursday, August 4, 2011
NFL star Bubba Smith dies
Monday, September 28, 2009
Blacked out, knocked down … Lions arise!
I'm Stunned and In a state of Shock !
....
Detroit Free Press
After 644 losing days, 21 losing months, 18 losing Sundays, one losing Thursday, four starting quarterbacks, one fired coach, one tar-and-feathered team president and a million bad jokes about Detroit futility — after all that, the gun sounded on this last weekend of September, and our long, local nightmare was finally over.
The Lions won a game.
I swear.
Amazing!
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