69 years old. Colon Cancer. He was a good one. I remember him at Alabama and the Oakland Raiders. I'm partial to lefties. http://www.al.com/alabamafootball/index.ssf/2015/07/ken_stabler_dies_alabama_football.html
He was one of the most entertaining players that I ever saw. When you think of the Raiders, you think of him. It was almost like he could slip out of any situation and turn it into points.
He is a legend around here, both on and off the field. He was intense on the field and lived life to the fullest off the field. The football world lost a real character yesterday. :cry:
He finished his career as an Oiler. Dan Pastorini was traded to Oakland for him and that was going to be the final piece we needed to get to the Super Bowl...alas we didn't and in the infamous New Years Masacre Bud Adams fired Bum Phillips. He and Dave Caspar were a great duo in Oakland. RIP.
I really liked Stabler. As much a character as a great QB. Watched a documentary on the Raiders once and Madden said players used to complain on the sideline that they were getting drunk just sharing the huddle with Stabler. I guess he would occasionally report to the lock room on game day directly from the clubs. :lol:
Nobody worked the 2 minute drill like the Snake and Biletnikoff.... What a team of characters......Dandy Don's favorite was the "Man from Mars".....anybody....anybody?....
LOL!! Gipper Got it!!............ Sistrunk was one of the few NFL players of his day to not play college football, going directly from William H. Spencer High School in Columbus, Georgia to the United States Marines. After leaving the military, the 21-year-old found work at a Milwaukee meat-packing plant and played two years of semi-pro football in the area for the West Allis Racers before joining the Norfolk Neptunes of the Continental Football League in 1969. Sistrunk played three years for the Neptunes (the last two in the semi-pro Atlantic Coast Football League after the CPFL folded); in 1971, a Los Angeles Rams scout spotted Sistrunk and believed he could play in the NFL.[6] During a team practice, he was observed by representatives of the Oakland Raiders, who brought Sistrunk to their team in 1972. "University of Mars"[edit] During a Monday Night Football telecast, a television camera beamed a sideline shot of the 6'5", 265-pound Sistrunk's steaming bald head to the nation. That, along with his lack of a college education resulting in the team program listing Sistrunk's academic background as "U.S. Mars" (short for U.S. Marines), prompted ABC commentator and ex-NFL player Alex Karras to suggest that the extraterrestrial-looking Sistrunk's alma mater was the "University of Mars."