Super Bowl champion and former Raiders defensive end Joe Campbell dies aged 68

[pwaldo]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/nf...-incident.html

Former Raiders defensive end Joe Campbell was found dead at age 68 after going for a hike in Florida on Sunday.

The former Super Bowl winner is believed to have suffered a cardiac incident, his brother Patrick told Delaware Online.

The defenseman was drafted with the seventh overall pick by the New Orleans Saints in 1977 and went on to suit up for the Raiders and Buccaneers during his five-year career in the NFL.

He played three full seasons with the Saints before being traded midseason to the Raiders and also played for the Bucs in 1981.

But it was his stint with the Raiders he is most well known for, having been a member of the Oakland team that won Super Bowl XV in the 1980 season.

Campbell survived a collision with a pickup truck while cycling in Pennsylvania in 2007. However, he sustained a fractured skull and his left forearm had to be surgically reattached.

The accident left him in a coma for more than six weeks, breathing with the help of a respirator.

Campbell was also left with memory problems but, despite his challenges, he still remembered his championship winning season.

'I got traded from New Orleans to Oakland and I get to come back to New Orleans to play in the Super Bowl against the Eagles,' Campbell said in 2016, via Delaware Online.

'I guess it was meant to be. I played against the team I grew up with. That's the best memory I have of the Super Bowl – This was supposed to happen. I got traded from New Orleans, I came back to New Orleans and I played against the team I grew up with. I'm happy to have just been in the Super Bowl, to be part of that history.'

[bakemeister52]

RIP brother!