Two-time Super Bowl champion and a member of the Dolphins' perfect season Mike Kolen dead at 76

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Former Miami Dolphins linebacker Mike 'Captain Crunch' Kolen has passed away at the age of 76.

His alma mater, Alabama's Auburn University, said the linebacker passed away on Wednesday, though details about how he died are not currently known.

Kolen joined the big leagues upon enrolling at Auburn, where he twice earned ALL-SEC honors during his junior and senior years.

He also led the team in tackles in 16 of the 25 games he started between 1967-1969. as a result, he was given his nickname by fellow Auburn linebacker Robert Margeson for being a hard hitter.

Kolen was also the first-ever recipient of the National Christian Athlete of the Year Award.

In 2014 he said during an interview: 'I never tried to hurt anybody, but football is a physical game. I enjoyed that part of it. I'm not really enjoying it so much now, because it's all coming home for me.

'In the last year and a half I've had a couple of joint replacements. When you start playing in the first grade and play all the way through college and eight years in the NFL, that's going to happen.'

Threes year later, he revealed that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.

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