Seriously, 75 is probably too old to be leafblowing up on the roof.
Posted on 10/21/2007 7:16:17 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
MINNEAPOLIS - Max McGee, the unexpected hero of the first Super Bowl and a long-time challenge for Hall of Fame coach Vince Lombardi, died Saturday after falling from the roof of his home, police confirmed. He was 75.
Police were called to the former Green Bay receiver's Deephaven home around 5:20 p.m., Sgt. Chris Whiteside said. Efforts to resuscitate McGee were unsuccessful.
McGee was blowing leaves off the roof when he fell, according to news reports. A phone message left at a number listed for an M. McGee wasn't immediately returned.
"I just lost my best friend," former teammate Paul Hornung told the St. Paul Pioneer Press. "(His wife) Denise was away from the house. She'd warned him not to get up there. He shouldn't have been up there. He knew better than that."
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Packers veteran falls off roof in Vikings country? I suspect foul play.
Seriously, 75 is probably too old to be leafblowing up on the roof.
Better left to the wind.
Leaf-blowing can be a very pernicious temptation. Especially to the aged.
Gotta love it...RIP Max.
We had to make my wife’s father stop working on roofs when he went to Habitat for Humanity jobs. He was going to fall eventually.
LOL. RIP.
First Sam, now Max...
Ditto at 63.
Generally quieter, too.
“She’d warned him not to get up there. He shouldn’t have been up there. He knew better than that.”
Man, if she hammered his ass when he was alive like she is doing when he is dead, I don’t blame him for being upon the roof. Nagging at a dead man takes the cake.
If anyone in Houston is considering gutter caps freep mail me and I will tell you who you should NOT deal with.
He did color analysis for Green Bay Packer's radio affiliate, WTMJ, Milwaukee:
http://www.620wtmj.com/
Interesting, as today since it is a bye week for the Packers, WTMJ is replaying the 1992 Packer game against the Cincinnati Bengals. This was the game that Brett Favre made his first appearance after Don Majkowski went down with an injury. Brett brought the Packers back from a 14 point deficit to win the game.
Max did the color analysis for that game as well.
My favorite story when Max was an announcer for the Packers came a number of years ago when one of the Dallas receivers had a finger tip shaved off because of an injury. As Max heard about this he quipped, "Thank God it wasn't a groin pull."
A few weeks ago, I heard a woman on the radio say death as sexist. Not a lie. Her reasoning? Husbands often die before their wives and that unfairly places a burden on the women. That is not an exaggeration in the slightest.
I wonder what Vince Lombardi said to him when he “entered through the gate”?
When something like that needs to be done on my house, I hire it done. The price of the service is cheap life insurance.
i bet the second word out of his mouth started with an f. RIP
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