Ray Nitschke’s Death – Cause and Date

The football player Ray Nitschke died at the age of 61. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Hall of fame middle linebacker for the Green Bay Packers who was named MVP of the 1962 NFL Championship Game and was a 1964 Pro Bowl selection.

He married Jackie Forchette in June of 1961 and together they adopted three children.

Nitschke died of a heart attack in Venice, Florida at the age of 61 in 1998. He had been driving to the home of a family friend, according to his daughter, Amy Klaas, who was with him when he was stricken.

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It was the character of the Packers, man. We played for sixty minutes. We let it all hang out. There was no tomorrow for us. We got the adrenaline flowing, and we just let it go, man.

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It was another day to go to work, and try to play and play well.

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Packer fans are nuts, man.

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I think it was the preparation and every thing Lombardi represented, you know, about hard work and that every game was important. So when you get to the real important games, you were ready to go.

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That’s what you work all season for, to get into the playoff games, and you don’t want to blow it.