"Jethro Pugh, 70; tackle in Cowboys’ ‘Doomsday Defense’" by Schuyler Dixon, Associated Press January 10, 2015
IRVING, Texas — Jethro Pugh played alongside Hall of Famers Bob Lilly and Randy White in a long career as a defensive tackle for the Dallas Cowboys, which may explain why he was among the most unsung Super Bowl winners in the franchise’s storied history.
Mr. Pugh, who played in the first four Super Bowls for Dallas and was part of a ‘‘Doomsday Defense’’ that won two of them, died Wednesday. He was 70.
Mr. Pugh died of natural causes four days before the Cowboys were to play their first postseason game in Green Bay since the famous Ice Bowl in 1967. Mr. Pugh was blocked on Bart Starr’s quarterback sneak for the game-winning touchdown in Dallas’ 21-17 loss in the Ice Bowl that sent the Packers to the second Super Bowl....
Mr. Pugh played on Dallas teams that beat Miami and Denver in the Super Bowl after the 1971 and 1977 seasons. He was on teams that lost to Baltimore and Pittsburgh.
The final season for Mr. Pugh was 1978, when he played in 13 regular-season games but missed the playoffs, including a loss to Pittsburgh in the Super Bowl....
After football, Mr. Pugh had a successful career as a businessman through a company that runs airport concessions.
Oh, he had a life after football?
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That stunk for the Cowboys, and this stinks to high heaven:
"Navy SEAL from N.H. dies in parachute accident in Fla." by Aneri PattaniGlobe Correspondent January 12, 2015
A 31-year-old Navy SEAL from New Hampshire who played baseball at Stonehill College died Saturday in a parachute accident during training in DeLand, Fla., the Navy said.
The first thing In thought was he involved in the alleged assassination of bin Laden because a lot of those guys involved in that fraud have been getting rubbed out in this way.
William “Blake” Marston died while making a landing at the airport.
“The entire Naval Special Warfare community extends its sincerest condolences to the family and friends of our teammate, Blake,” said Lieutenant David Lloyd, a US Navy spokesman. “He will be missed by all who knew him. An investigation into this incident is underway.”
Marston, who was assigned to an East Coast-based SEAL team, had been in the Navy for six years and completed SEAL training in 2009, Lloyd said in an e-mail.
That answers my question.
Lloyd said he was unable to provide details of the accident while an investigation was underway. But police said Marston was found on the ground unconscious and with a broken leg. He was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Who threw him out of the plane or sabotaged his suit?
A witness told police that something flew off Marston’s parachute as he was in free fall between 40 to 60 feet above ground.
Marston, of Concord, “always demonstrated an incredible commitment to his fellow service members,” US Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire said in a statement.
New Hampshire’s junior senator, Kelly Ayotte, said in a statement that Marston died while “training to conduct dangerous missions that keep Americans safe. We owe our freedom and security to men like Blake.”
And you owe us the truth.
Marston graduated from the Derryfield School in Manchester, N.H., in 2001. A decorated member of the high school’s baseball team, he pitched eight no-hitters, served as captain, and was a three-time all-state player, school officials said.
He went on to study criminology at Stonehill College in Easton, graduating in 2007, college officials said.
He played on the college’s baseball team for three years, most often as a second baseman. Stonehill College baseball coach Patrick Boen said Monday in a telephone interview that Marston was a gifted athlete and the hardest worker on the team.
“He was a terrific teammate and a leader who led by example,” Boen said. “Other players on the team looked up to him because of how hard he worked.”
During Marston’s senior year, several pitchers on the team were injured. Marston was the first one to volunteer to step in and pitch, Boen recalled.
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