Dead in 2011

[rjs246]

Yeah, in like 1985.

[BigEd76]

Duke Snider

[Eagaholic]

Move over 85 Bears, you ain't got lightening

Former Charger Shawn Lee passes at 44
Posted by Mike Florio on February 28, 2011, 5:33 PM EST
1994

Our NBC colleague and good friend Rodney Harrison, a rookie member of the Chargers' Super Bowl team of 1994, called to advise that his former teammate, Shawn Lee, died over the weekend at the age of 44.

NBC San Diego reports that the team has confirmed Lee's passing.

Lee is at least the sixth member of the 1994 Chargers to die entirely too young.  Defensive lineman Chris Mims passed in 2008 at age 38 due to an enlarged heart.  Offensive lineman Curtis Whitley died in 2008 of a drug overdose.  He was 39.

Linebacker Doug Miller was struck by lightning in 1998, at age 28.  Running back Rodney Culver died in a 1996 plane crash.  Linebacker David Griggs perished in a 1995 car accident.  He was 28.

The cause of Lee's death has not been disclosed.

Doug miller being struck by lightening would actually have been a very cool way to go if he had his helmet on. Plane crash merits honorable mention.

[MDS]

stan humphries cant make the super bowl without making some kind of deal with the devil

[SD]

Linebacker Doug Miller was struck by lightning in 1998, at age 28.  Running back Rodney Culver died in a 1996 plane crash.  Linebacker David Griggs perished in a 1995 car accident.  He was 28.

aren't those some shtein

[MMH]

Wan't that plane crash the ValueJet gas cylinders crash?  Cause that wasn't a crash, it was an explosion due to negligence and greed.

[Diomedes]

The alligators didn't much care whether it was an explosion or a crash.  Either way, it was meat falling from the sky. 

Meat falling from the sky!

[MMH]

Gotta keep the gators nice and plump for the pythons.

[Eagaholic]

Wan't that plane crash the ValueJet gas cylinders crash?  Cause that wasn't a crash, it was an explosion due to negligence and greed.

If so, it's what lead  the misnamed ValueJet to become AirTran.

[PhillyGirl]

Jane Russell at 89 yrs old

[ice grillin you]

A chapter of American History has officially closed. Frank Buckles, the last surviving American veteran of World War I, died of natural causes Sunday at the age of 110 in his Charles Town, W. Va., home, a family spokesman said in a statement.

[DH]

he's getting a full military burial at arlington...very cool, especially for a guy who never saw any action overseas

[Sgt PSN]

You don't need to be a combat vet to receive military honors, just a vet. 

[ice grillin you]

i dont think he was saying you do

that cat being buried at arlington is kinda of like making the hall of fame thru the veterans committee not because you had 500 homers or 3000 hits

[Sgt PSN]

I didn't notice before, but I now see that DH said he's being buried at Arlington....in which case, not "any old vet" can be buried there.  So yeah, some exceptions for this guy have been made since he never left the country.