RIP Sammy Baugh
 

Being reported on ESPNews

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[url=http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/8956172/NFL-record-setter-Baugh-dies]FOX Sports on MSN - NFL - NFL record-setter Baugh dies[/url]

RIP to one of the all-time greats.

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I just saw that myself. A true legend is gone. R.I.P Sammy Baugh.
[url=http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3776838]ESPN - Washington Redskins great "Slingin' Sammy" Baugh dead at 94[/url]

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God Bless Sammy and his family. God's team just got a lot better, getting the greatest football player to ever live.

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Just came on to post the ESPN link.

RIP Slingin' Sammy

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Greatest all around player to ever play in the NFL....

RIP #33

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[quote=Hail to the Redskins;513098]Greatest all around player to ever play in the NFL....

RIP #33[/quote]

And if I may add, the [B][SIZE="6"]"Greatest Redskin" [/SIZE][/B]of all time, even if I didn't see him play.

Don Maynard said:

"There's nobody any better than Sam Baugh was in pro football," Don Maynard, a fellow West Texas Hall of Famer who played for Baugh, said in a 2002 interview. "When I see somebody picking the greatest player around, to me, if they didn't go both ways, they don't really deserve to be nominated. I always ask, 'Well, how'd he do on defense? How was his punting?'"

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This man had to be the most talented player to ever play the game. And he was one of our own. [I]RIP Mr. Baugh[/I]

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He brought the Passing game into fruition.

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RIP, and prayers to the family. I certainly I hope I see 94!

from PFT:
REDSKINS GREAT SAMMY BAUGH PASSES
Posted by Mike Florio on December 17, 2008, 9:46 p.m. EST
Hall of Famer Sammy Baugh, one of the greatest quarterbacks (and punters) of all time, has died at the age of 94.

Said Redskins owner Daniel Snyder, in a release: “Sammy Baugh embodied all we aspire to at the Washington Redskins. He was a competitor in everything he did and a winner. He was one of the greatest to ever play the game of football, and one of the greatest the Redskins ever had. My thoughts and prayers are with his family tonight.”

Baugh joined the Redskins in 1937, when the team moved from Boston to Washington.

In 1943, he led the league in passing, punting, and pass interceptions (while playing defense, not while doing the Brett Favre chuck-and-duck).

Baugh also had a great sense of humor. After the Bears blasted the Redskins for the 1940 NFL title by a score of 73-0, a reporter asked Baugh if the outcome would have been different if a touchdown pass hadn’t been dropped by one of Baugh’s teammates.

”Yeah,” Baugh said. “It would have made it 73-7.”
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Man, just when it is getting dark for Skins fan, this has to happen. Sammy was the ultimate all time Skin QB!!! He is in a better place now. Condolescences to his family.

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too bad none of us got to see him play. truly a man among boys. may god bless his family

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Wow, what shame. But he lived a full, wonderful life. This is an opportunity to remember and rejoice in the person and player he was.

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This goes out to the family of the great QB, DB and greatest punter of all time!

This will be a celebration of life for a great man that touched so many and made the game of football what we know it to be today. A TRUE pioneer!

You will be missed but never forgotten. May GOD rest your soul and be with the family in there time of deep sorrow and need. A TRUE REDSKIN LEGEND IS IN THE LORD'S HOUSE NOW!

An article I read earlier just this year and bookmarked it after the read. Due to SB's ailing health at the time when reading.

RIP Mr. Sammy Baugh

[URL="http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00014080.html"]ESPN.com: Baugh perfected the perfect pass[/URL]

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Rip Sammy!