Posted on 01/10/2006 6:13:22 PM PST by WestTexasWend
Texas Tech assistant football coach Dave Brown died of an apparent heart attack Tuesday afternoon, an athletic department spokesman confirmed.
Brown collapsed while playing basketball at a campus recreation center, media relations director Chris Cook said.
Brown coached the defensive secondary for Texas Tech since 2001. He previously coached the secondary for the Seattle Seahawks, for whom he was an All-Pro defensive back. Brown played 16 years in the NFL with Seattle, Pittsburgh and Green Bay and is enshrined in the Seahawks' Ring of Honor.
Dave Brown, one of the original Seahawks, died today, apparently while playing basketball in Lubbock, Texas. He was an assistant coach for the Red Raiders' football team. It was his fifth year at the school, which played Alabama in a bowl game this season.
Brown was 52.
Brown came to the team for its inaugural season in 1976, chosen from the Pittsburgh Steelers in the veteran allocation draft. He played 11 seasons with the Seahawks and still holds the franchise record with 50 interceptions in his career.
Brown was inducted into the team's ring of honor in 1992. He was an assistant coach for Seattle from 1992 to '98.
The benchmark for the Seahawks' success until this season was the 1984 team, which went 12-4 and won eight consecutive games.
Brown was an essential part of the success that season, becoming the first Seahawk cornerback chosen for the Pro Bowl. He returned two interceptions for touchdowns in a game against Kansas City in 1984, the only Seahawk defensive player ever to score twice in a game until Andre Dyson did it this season.
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/football/archives/101043.asp
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Sad news from Raiderland.
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What a sad thing for his family and friends.
Prayers for all of his loved ones.
Thanks for the ping. Another example of why we should live every day as though it was our last. Prayers for the Brown family.
Very young age...52.
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