Hall of Fame linebacker Kevin Greene dies at 58

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The Pro Football Hall of Fame announced the news on Monday. The cause of death was not noted.

“The entire Pro Football Hall of Fame family mourns the passing of Kevin Greene,” Hall of Fame President & CEO David Baker said, per the statement.

“I regarded him as a personal friend and a true Hall of Famer in every sense. He possessed the most incredible can-do attitude of anyone I ever met. He was a great player, but more than that, he was a great man.”

Greene played 15 seasons in the NFL from 1985 to 1999 for the Los Angeles Rams, Pittsburgh Steelers, Carolina Panthers and San Francisco 49ers. He was one of the most feared pass rushers in NFL history, tallying 160 career sacks while earning Pro Bowl and All-Pro honors with the Rams, Steelers and Panthers. He was named to the Pro Bowl five times during his career.

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1. Lots of tributes pouring in

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2. He was a "fav" here in Steeler Nation.........

sad........

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3. He went from unrecruited college walk-on to all conference linbacker to the the pro bowl while also

becoming a Captain in the Army National Guard. A great guy who loved the game. Even coached a few years with the Green Bay Packers and NY Jets. From Wikipedia.......

Early years

Greene was born on July 31, 1962, in Schenectady, New York. An army brat, he began playing football on military bases. The Greene family moved to different bases and spent three years in Germany before they settled in Granite City, Illinois, in 1976.[1]

Greene played football, basketball, and was a high jumper for the track team at Granite City High School.[1] He graduated in 1980 and was inducted into the Granite City Sports Hall of Fame in 1998.[2]
College career

After graduating from high school, Greene enrolled at Auburn University and entered into the ROTC basic training for the United States National Guard at Fort McClellan in Anniston, Alabama.[1] He attempted to walk-on to the Auburn Tigers in college football as a punter in 1980. He tried out again in 1983, and made the team.[3] In 1984 he won the Zeke Smith Award as Defensive Player of the Year. He had 69 career tackles as an outside linebacker and 11 sacks his senior year where he led the Southeastern Conference and won the Defensive Player of the Year Award in 1984.[4]

Greene earned a degree in criminal justice at Auburn. He completed ROTC while at Auburn and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Alabama Army National Guard. After playing his first year in the NFL, during the off season, he graduated from the RC-1-86 Armor Officer Basic Course at Fort Knox. During his military career, he earned the rank of captain and completed airborne training at Fort Benning to become a paratrooper.[5]