Golden Richards R.I.P.

[Booth]

Ex-Cowboy receiver Golden Richards passed away yesterday at the age of 73. He died from congestive heart failure. He was known for his speed. He ran a 4.29 40 at BYU.

Former BYU football star and Dallas Cowboys receiver Golden Richards has died at the age of 73

BYU football: Former Cougar and Dallas Cowboys star Golden Richards passed away of congenital heart failure in his Murray, Utah, home early Friday morning.

sports.yahoo.com

 

[icsept]

Great name, great hair. 1970s football was cool.

 

[sport historian]

Do a Google search and you will find many news items about Golden Richards. He had a way of making the spectacular catch, best known was for the clinching TD against the Broncos in Super Bowl XII.

 

[freedom1]

Mel Blount cheap shot story

 

[SneakyQuick]

Mel Blount cheap shot story

Hard to fathom how Blount wasn’t ejected for that

 

[white is right]

Hard to fathom how Blount wasn’t ejected for that

For younger posters and lurkers football was a very dirty sport until about the mid 90's when qb's starting going down like foot soldiers in a meat grinder(war term) and then the league decided to legislate head blows against qb's and then defenseless receiver a good decade later.

Blount while dirty wasn't unusual in his dirty play, Jack Tatum routinely head hunt players. To this day the dirtiest hit I ever seen was the blow that essentially ended the career of Jim McMahon as an elite qb.

Getting back on point the bravery of Richards was beyond words I myself was roughly the same size as Richards when I was in his age range in his NFL years and could never contemplate taking the punishment of Richards by players of that size with the power they could generate.

Rip to a true warrior...

 

[Freethinker]

Mel Blount cheap shot story

Thanks for sharing. I like how he was able to get back at Blount years later. The players were a lot tougher back then. RIP.