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Giants quarterback Y.A. Tittle after being slammed to the ground by a Pittsburgh Steelers lineman in Pittsburgh on Sept. 20, 1964. The photograph immortalized Tittle in football lore as an image of the aging warrior who had finally fallen.
Morris Berman/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, via Associated Press; thumbnail, Barton Silverman/The New York Times, 2013
Y.A. Tittle
Died on October 8, 2017 at age 90
A Hall of Fame quarterback, Tittle led the Giants to three consecutive National Football League championship games in the early 1960s after the San Francisco 49ers had discarded him as too old and too slow.
Notable Deaths 2017
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