The "Gentle Giant." Not in the context of football from which the title was coined, but in relation to the disease that brought him down. This man - who still holds the Ram's all-time team record for number of tackles and graduated summa cum laude from Utah State University - was knocked down by something as small and unthinking as asbestos fibers.
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