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Ironhead, RIP

May 28th, 2006 · No Comments

Craig “Ironhead” Heyward, the former University of Pittsburgh running back who bulldozed his way through a journeyman’s career in the NFL, died yesterday after a long bout with brain cancer. He was 39.

Sadly, apart from mentioning the strange irony of a man called “Ironhead” developing a brain tumor, all I can do here is point you this piece in The Onion as a tribute to Heyward’s all-too-brief moment in the sun.

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