Death Is Stalking The 1994 Chargers

[PSG_Mud]

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It is the plot of the least likely [i]Final Destination[/i] sequel ever: members of the 1994 AFC Champion Chargers have been dying premature deaths. Even more premature than the average CTE-doomed football player: with [url="http://www.chargers.com/news/article-1/Former-Charger-Lew-Bush-passes-away/762bf2d3-dfb2-4303-91c4-f471a52bfb2a"]Lew Bush's death last week,[/url] seven players from that Super Bowl team have passed away before the age of 45.
• Five months after that Super Bowl, LB David Griggs [url="http://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/21/obituaries/david-griggs-football-player-28.html"]drove his car off a freeway ramp and slammed into a sign pole.[/url] Subsequent tests would show that [url="http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1995-07-09/sports/9507090129_1_david-griggs-dolphins-alcohol"]his blood alcohol level was twice the legal limit.[/url]
• In 1996, RB Rodney Culver and his wife were aboard ValuJet FLight 592 from Miami to Atlanta when [url="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1998/03/the-lessons-of-valujet-592/6534/"]it crashed into the Everglades, killing all on board.[/url]
• In 1998, LB Doug Miller was [url="http://lubbockonline.com/stories/072398/LS0438.shtml"]struck by lightning while camping in Colorado.[/url] CPR was being performed on Miller when he was struck again by a second bolt.
• In 2008, C Curtis Whitley [url="http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d80850307/printable/former-center-whitley-found-dead-in-texas-trailer-home"]was found dead in his trailer in Texas. Whitley had a history of substance abuse and had twice been suspended by the NFL, and toxicology results pointed to an accidental overdose.[/url]
• Also in 2008, DE Chris Mims [url="http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2009/jun/07/1n7mims225244-fallen-stars-burnout/"]was discovered facedown on the bathroom floor of his Los Angeles apartment.[/url] An autopsy revealed an enlarged heart, and Mims weighed 456 pounds at his death.
• Earlier this year, DT Shawn Lee [url="http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/feb/28/former-chargers-dl-shawn-lee-dead-44/"]died from cardiac arrest brought on by years of complications with diabetes.[/url]
• On Thursday, Bush suffered a heart attack at his home in San Diego. Since retiring in 2002, friends say he had struggled with his weight.
A combination of freak accidents and typical post-football life demises. This is a statistical anomaly, not the spectral fingers of death personified plucking Bobby Ross's squad from this mortal plane. Still: football is a really, really dangerous game.[/quote]

http://deadspin.com/5867720/death-is-stalking-the-1994-chargers

Interesting read, I find it hard to believe even... death by being stuck by lightning... TWICE.

[Purple Punishment]

Wow, Doug Miller....how in the living world does that happen???

[Cville-Raven]

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Wow, Doug Miller....how in the living world does that happen???
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Struck twice my god.......

[K-Dog]

Statically speaking, death stalks every one.

[Gordo52]

I would be nervous if I was still alive and was a 94 charger....Very sad

[Gordo52]

[quote name='Cville-Raven' timestamp='1336095598' post='1071776']
Struck twice my god.......
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Something also intriguing is that he was a charger. Someone who wore lighting bolts on their Uni's gets struck by lightning TWICE.

[GrimCoconut]

It's like the football version of Final Destination.

[Purple Punishment]

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[b]I would be nervous if I was still alive and was a 94 charger[/b]....Very sad
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You would eventually die of hypertension

[ThePurpleWall]

[quote name='Ravens<3' timestamp='1336097329' post='1071796']
I would be nervous if I was still alive and was a 94 charger....Very sad
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well if they did that then they would drive them self's mad.

[H8R]

I thought they were all dead from the 9ers beating them down in the Bowl...
Thats really crazy though!

[PSG_Mud]

Junior Seau was also apart of the '94 team.