Reggie White, dead

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Passing of a great one. :sad:

Defensive lineman Reggie White, who terrorized quarterbacks for the Green Bay Packers and Philadelphia Eagles, has died of a massive heart attack at age 43, according to ESPN.

Reporter Andrea Kremer said that since leaving he game, he had suffered through his wife's diagnosis with multiple sclerosis, and had been studying Hebrew in a search to better clarify his religious beliefs.

He left his wife, a son and a daughter. The family issued a statement thanking fans and reporters for their thoughts and asking that their privacy be respected.

White was nicknamed the "Minister of Defense" for his football prowess and his Evangelical Christian ordination.

A prolific sacker, he set records at the University of Tennessee that still stand. After school, he signed on with the Memphis Showboats of the USFL for two seasons, then joined the Eagles when the USFL folded. In 1993, after eight seasons in Philadelphia, he went to Green Bay for six seasons and helping them to two Super Bowls, including a victory in Super Bowl XXXI.

After retiring in 1998, he had a change of heart and signed with the Carolina Panthers for the 2000 season, but retired again after a lackluster performance that year.

In 1996, the Inner City Church in Knoxville, Tenn., where White was an associate minister, was burned to the ground in 1996. An outpouring of financial support, in part because of White's celebrity, helped to rebuild the church.
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I venture to guess Reggie White just may have been the single most respected player the NFL has ever seen. By his peers, his opponents, his coaches, and the fans. There ain't many like Reggie.
 
SouthernN'Proud said:
I venture to guess Reggie White just may have been the single most respected player the NFL has ever seen. By his peers, his opponents, his coaches, and the fans. There ain't many like Reggie.
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"How did he do it?", many would ask. Simple. He wasn't an braggart & he did his job to the best of his ability without expecting recognition.
 
SouthernN'Proud said:
I venture to guess Reggie White just may have been the single most respected player the NFL has ever seen. By his peers, his opponents, his coaches, and the fans. There ain't many like Reggie.
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Well he had his foibles. But he apologized. And what he did off the field to help the poor and to help the people in those black churches torched by racists and THEN embracing the racists as simply a product of thier own impovrished situation instead of making it an us vs them deal showed character worthy of highest admiration.
 
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