Paul Hornung (#5) Dies at 84

[warren]

The horrendous end to a life lived fully.

Edited by jvnshr: Title

 

[didimauw]

?

 

[Capt Morgan]

Care to elaborate?

You are so getting your title changed...

 

[warren]

If you don't live in Wisconsin the reference would probably be meaningless and of no interest. His time was the Lombardi years. Probably too arcane a reference for anyone under 60, even if they are NFL fans.

 

[mingc]

Paul Hornung?

 

[ashdigger]

He suffered from dementia. Horrible way to go.

It’s like shooting a grizzly, save one round for yourself if the rest don’t stop him.

 

[saltedplug]

Once the quality of life is going and the hard suffering is about to start, human euthanasia, and animal as well, make sense to me.

 

[jvnshr]

I had to correct the title @warren. May his soul rest in peace.

 

[warren]

Wished you hadn't, now everybody will be posting comments, on topic or not. But, you do have a job to do and I understand. These eulogy type posts tend to go sideways quickly.

 

[jvnshr]

Wished you hadn't, now everybody will be posting comments, on topic or not. But, you do have a job to do and I understand. These
eulogy type posts tend to go sideways quickly.

Thanks for understanding.

 

[didimauw]

Well this makes much more sense. I am from Wisconsin, but I am under 60. So there's that.

 

[warren]

You missed a "oner." Starr, Taylor, Horning, the whole bunch all centered on Lombardi. They put a small town with a publicly owned team on the map. I had to watch on tape delay up here in Alaska back then.

Horning lived large, made big mistakes in life as most of us have and enjoyed a long life only to be cut down by an insidious illness. RIP!

 

[ssjones]

I was just a little boy when he played for the Packers, but my dad was a lifelong Packers fan and talked about him and Bart Starr frequently. Bart Starr had a similar end to his life, sad.

 

[daveinlax]

The Golden Boy. RIP

 

[mso489]

I'm not a devoted football fan though I've seen some great games and especially Super Bowls, but I remember him. Dementia hits a lot of people who never played sports, but you always think of that as a potential factor. Banging the "circuitry" against the cranium takes a toll. He did pretty well with longevity, though under the circumstances, that may have been a hardship.