2015 Obituaries

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Longtime Bengals executive John Sawyer, who helped Paul Brown get the franchise started in 1968, has died at the age of 90:

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/20 ... ies-at-90/
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Former Steelers & Rams DB Willie Daniel died June 29, aged 77.

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/starkv ... =175192427
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While not official yet, a body believed to be that of former Browns and Texans WR JaJuan Dawson was recovered from a Dallas-area lake:

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap300000 ... nd-in-lake

http://www.pro-football-reference.com/p ... wsJa00.htm
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Bill Arnsparger has died at the age of 88:

http://www.nola.com/lsu/index.ssf/2015/ ... sparg.html
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Long-time Bills announcer Van Miller passed away at the age of 87.

Miller was the Bills’ voice on radio from 1960 to 1970 and 1978 to 2003 and won the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award in 2004. He’s in the Bills’ Wall of Fame.

http://www.buffalonews.com/city-region/ ... 7-20150718
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Long-time Bills announcer Van Miller passed away at the age of 87.

Miller was the Bills’ voice on radio from 1960 to 1970 and 1978 to 2003 and won the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award in 2004. He’s in the Bills’ Wall of Fame.

http://www.buffalonews.com/city-region/ ... 7-20150718
His decades of calling Bills games was part of the soundtrack of my childhood growing up in Cheektowaga, NY. RIP Van.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIHeXc1txzY
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Mike Kostiuk, who had been the oldest living Detroit Lion player, died Sunday at the age of 95. He played in 1941 with the Cleveland Rams, then in 1945 with the Lions:

http://www.freep.com/story/sports/nfl/l ... /30752093/

www.pro-football-reference.com/players/K/KostMi20.htm
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Mike Pyle, who was captain of the 1963 Bears has died at the age of 76:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/fo ... story.html

http://www.pro-football-reference.com/p ... leMi00.htm
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Curtis Brown, an RB for the Bills from 1977-82 (and Oilers in '83) has died at the age of 60:

http://bills.buffalonews.com/2015/07/30 ... at-age-60/

http://www.pro-football-reference.com/p ... owCu00.htm
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Curtis Brown, an RB for the Bills from 1977-82 (and Oilers in '83) has died at the age of 60:
I have vivid memories of him when I was growing up watching the Bills. He was a decent backup to Terry Miller and then Joe Cribbs.
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