Former NFL operating again Randy Minniear has died at the age of 79.

After enjoying faculty soccer at Purdue, Minniear was a Twentieth-round choose of the Giants within the 1966 NFL draft and performed for them for 4 seasons. He additionally performed one yr with the Browns in 1970.

After retiring from the NFL, Minniear spent 40 years engaged on Wall Street, however he wasn’t finished with the game of soccer: In his 70s, Minniear moved again residence to Indiana and took a job teaching highschool soccer. He advised the Indianapolis Star he wished to offer again to the sport and construct a program at a highschool that had lengthy struggled on the sector.

“I told the school board, ‘I’m not your future,’” Minniear stated in 2018. “‘I’m 72 years old. But I can help some young coaches come along.’ They are guys who can take the program over and be good head coaches.”

Minniear additionally spent 20 years as chairman of the NFL Alumni Association.