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The day Chuck Hughes died: Remembering the only NFL player to die in a game
The pass, on third and 1, sails incomplete as the clock ticks down in the fourth quarter.
He had lined up on the right side of the formation as the Lions, trailing 28-23, try to mount a comeback against the rival Bears. He races downfield on a post pattern, but Greg Landry’s pass, intended for tight end Charlie Sanders, sails incomplete.
The second-string wide receiver, who’d always been told he was too small to play, turns and begins trotting back the huddle, as he had so many times in high school and college in Texas and eventually, yes, in the National Football League.
He never makes it.
“I was watching him,” Joe Falls would write in The Sporting News. “Why, I don’t know.”
Still on the Bears side of the field, the player pitches forward awkwardly, falling face down, arms at his sides.
Chuck Hughes, 28, is dead.
It is October 24, 1971. Fifty years ago this Sunday.
Across more than 100 years of league play, he remains the only NFL player to die during a game.
https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/chuck-hughes-only-nfl-player-to-die-in-game/114oyq1niwf5p15lxwuo62m1ma
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Hughes
Best movie ever
Juice him up and send him back out there