Did he die “suddenly”?
On January 20, 1985, McElhenny participated in the opening coin toss at Super Bowl XIX at Stanford Stadium, along with U.S. President Ronald Reagan, who participated by video feed from the White House after having been sworn into his second term of office earlier that day.[27]
Waaay too young!.......................
From back when professional football was played...
An excellent athlete and a fine man...
Too young to go...
R.I.P.
A great niner
That guy was good! His was one of my favorite football cards in 1956 — the classic raised-knee pivot with stiffarm. He could fly and was shifty.
RIP.
Watched some highlights. That guy was amazing, like greased lightning.
The greats are leaving us.
I keep wondering when I'll hear about Bud Grant leaving us. He turned 95 last Month in May.
Bud was a head coach and played for both the NFL (Philadelphia Eagles), and Canadian Football league, was a member of the NBA World Champion Minneapolis Lakers in the "50s", head coach of the Minnesota Vikings, and won 4 Gray Cups as head coach of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the (CFL) he coached for ten seasons, fifth most successful NFL coach with a total of 286 wins in the NFL and CFL. He resides in both the College Hall of Fame, the NFL and CFK hall of fame.
Telling ya, they don't make athletes like these guys no more.
You never seen these guys, who struggled to make a living complaining about life like these pampered multimillionaire athletes do today.
Played Baseball for the Minnesota Gophers, and in the off season he was a hired gun, because he was an ace pitcher. So he got paid to pitch for semi pro baseball teams to make extra money. But he wanted to bat more than pitch. Knocked a ball out of Comisky park one day.
Coached Winnipeg in CFL
Won the Grey cup 4 times
Playing both offense and defense at times, in 1952, he gained 203 Receiving Yards against the Dallas Texans 
Eagle Grant, was also a line backer in some games, here he tackles an Opponent
2 sport star, Pro Basketball and Football player 
Won NBA title ring with the Minneapolis Lakers, 
WON LADST NFL CHAMPIONSHIP 1969
AKA, Stoneface 
Avid hunter 
95 and still going strong
I do not think any athlete will ever equal or surpass the accomplishments of Bud Grant. His life should be immortalized on the big screen.
The only reason he never won the Super Bowl in 69, was because the Kansas City chiefs were given Gatorade, while the Vikings only drank Water. Mind you, a week earlier they defeated the Cleveland Brown in Minnesota in a brutal game. Then they went to New Orleans and the humidity and heat, after playing in near 0 temps a week earlier.
In the game the Kansas Chiefs ran all over the Vikings, because they had a new product to quench their thirst with that was loaded with electrolytes, and the Vikings were only allowed water. I want to see them try that today. Now, someone tell me that the Chiefs beat the Vikings fairly, they didn't. But the NFL, and the AFL needed to make the merger work for the money, and the Vikings were sacrificed for the good of the future.
Some day I would like to write book about the way the NFL stole the Super Bowl from Bud Grant and the Vikings in 1969. It was there best team ever, and later years the team was over the hill and beat fair and square by the Dolphins, Stealers, and the Raiders, but the Chiefs did NOT beat the Vikings, Gatorade and the NFL/AFL merger committee did.
Even at that, in the other 3 Super Bowls, they were the best the NFC could muster.