Jack Tatum dead at 61...

[posty 2,849]

http://sports.iwon.com/news/07272010/v9321.html

 

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Jack Tatum, the All-Pro safety for the Oakland Raiders best known for his hit that paralyzed Darryl Stingley in an NFL preseason game in 1978, has died. He was 61.

 

Nicknamed "The Assassin," Tatum died of a heart attack Tuesday in Oakland, according to friend and former Ohio State teammate John Hicks.

 

On Aug. 12, 1978, Stingley, playing for the New England Patriots, ran head-on into the hard-hitting Tatum on a crossing pattern. The blow severed Stingley's fourth and fifth veterbrae and left the receiver paralyzed.

 

Tatum said he tried to visit Stingley at an Oakland hospital shortly after the collision but was turned away by Stingley's family members.

 

Stingley died in 2007.

[CurleyQ 0]

I remember Tatum as a miserable human being who never said he was sorry for the hit on Stingley, never went to see him, regardless of what he claims (per written reports back then)and in fact tried to capitalize on his nick name "assassin", afer the incident. He may have been a good player, but he was a head hunter and showed no remorse to a man that at least deserved THAT much.

[Patriotsfatboy1 1,433]

I remember Tatum as a miserable human being who never said he was sorry for the hit on Stingley, never went to see him, regardless of what he claims (per written reports back then)and in fact tried to capitalize on his nick name "assassin", afer the incident. He may have been a good player, but he was a head hunter and showed no remorse to a man that at least deserved THAT much.

Tatum went to visit Stingley to get press for his book long after the damage was done. Stingley did not want to deal with the circus show. One guy had class. The other was an ass.

[Thornton Melon 653]

http://www.boston.com/sports/football/articles/2010/07/27/hard_hitting_former_raider_jack_tatum_dies_at_61/?p1=Well_Sports_links

 

Tatum died Tuesday at age 61 in an Oakland hospital. The cause was a massive heart attack, according to friend and former Ohio State teammate John Hicks.

 

"It was tough on him, too," Hicks said of Tatum. "He wasn't the same person after that (hit). For years he was almost a recluse."

 

Tatum, though, showed no remorse for his headhunting ways in a 1980 book, "They Call Me Assassin" and the follow-ups "They Still Call Me Assassin: Here We Go Again" in 1989 and "Final Confessions of an NFL Assassin" in 1996.

 

 

 

Yeah, a real focking recluse....

[scasarano 0]

good

[dpbuddha 9]

Wrong Raider died...if only it were that lady that owns the team they could turn things around.