Sad bump.
I remember a game he had late in his career while playing for the Washington Redskins. They were playing a really crappy Chicago Bears team in the last game of the season. Washington was up 37-0 when they scored again. Their coach (I believe it was George Allen) sent Deacon out to kick the extra point. With barely the effort you or I would put into flicking a can out of our way he sent a screaming line drive right between the uprights. It would have been good from sixty yards.
Quite a way to cap off a career. Would not be equaled until Doug Flutie nailed that dropkick decades later.
R.I.P., Deacon.