Ray Guy, the Hall of Fame punter who won 3 Super Bowl rings with the Oakland and Los Angeles Raiders implicit a 14-season career, has died astatine the property of 72, the NFL announced Thursday.
Guy, who was a seven-time Pro Bowl enactment and a subordinate of the NFL's 100th Anniversary All-Time Team, averaged 42.4 yards implicit his vocation from 1973 to 1986. He led the league successful the class 3 times, portion finishing 2nd connected 3 different occasions.
Guy besides was an adept astatine flipping the field, signaling 209 punts wrong the opponents' 20-yard line.
His longest punt was a 74-yarder against the Denver Broncos successful 1977.
In 1973, the Southern Miss All-American became the archetypal punter to beryllium selected successful the archetypal circular of an NFL draft.
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