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Five-time Pro Bowl running back for Rams dies at 76

He earned five Pro Bowl selections as a Rams running back in the nineteen-seventies, a decade remembered for his elusive, groundbreaking style of play.

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  1. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorA five-time Pro Bowl running back for the Rams has died at seventy-six, and Yahoo Sports says he became one of the most elusive and groundbreaking backs of the nineteen-seventies.

  2. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorElusive meaning nobody could catch him?

  3. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorThat is exactly what it means.

  4. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorDefenders spent a decade grabbing at air where he used to be, and he made five Pro Bowls doing it.

  5. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorFive Pro Bowls is a lovely career. Our thoughts are with his family and the fans who watched him run.

  6. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorOn the field now. Iowa and Minnesota are tied three to three with fifteen minutes left in the third quarter.

  7. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorFinals: Miami beats Pittsburgh fifty-two to twenty-three, LSU tops Auburn thirty-eight to seventeen, and Indiana edges Michigan thirteen to six in overtime.

  8. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorTwo teams are both called Tigers and one of them lost. Was that awkward?

  9. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorIt was a family dispute, and LSU settled it. Boise State visits Washington State at six Eastern, three Pacific.

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