Jim Turner useless at 82: Legendary kicker received Tremendous Bowl with the New York Jets

Jim Turner, the legendary New York Jets and Denver Broncos kicker, has died on the age of 82 from coronary heart failure.

The quarterback-turned-kicker received the Super Bowl with the Jets in 1968 and went on to develop into a Broncos Ring of Fame participant, and was additionally notable for not lacking a single sport in his total profession. 

He performed quarterback for Utah State throughout his faculty profession, and was then chosen by Washington as a Nineteenth-round choose within the 1963 NFL Draft.

He then didn’t make the roster and reportedly ditched his soccer profession for a life in educating, per NBC Sports activities.

In 1964, then-Jets coach Weeb Ewbank signed him to play within the American Soccer League, and simply 4 years later he was a part of the famed New York group that beat the Colts to win Tremendous Bowl III, kicking discipline targets from 32, 30 and 9 yards.

He died on Sunday from coronary heart failure together with his household by his facet, in line with a number of studies. 

In his profession, he performed 228 consecutive video games, by no means lacking a sport by damage, and at his retirement he had scored the second-most factors in NFL historical past. 

After his time with the Jets, he spent eight years with the Broncos and was inducted into the group’s Ring of Fame in 1988.

Submit-playing profession, he moved into the media and labored as a nationwide and native broadcaster for NBC Sports activities, KNUS and KOA Radio.

He’s survived by his spouse of 58 years, Mary Kay, and three daughters, Lisa, Chris and Alison.

Turner lived close to Denver together with his spouse, and ‘numerous canine, cats, birds and gerbils’, per 9News.