RIP Max McGee

The former Packer who caught a bunch of passes in Super Bowl 1 is dead at 75. Reported on a local TV station tonight.

No cause of death reported yet (my paper hasn't even confirmed it yet), but some inside info I knew about a year or two ago was that he was in the early stages of Alzheimer's.

UPDATE: Fell off the roof of his home. No word on why he was up there.

 

Oh fuck. :'(

RIP to a great Packer, and the subject of one of the most famous images in Super Bowl history:

 

One of the great stories in Super Bowl history, too.

RIP

 

I always enjoys hearing about this story:

http://www.supernfl.com/SuperBowl/sb1.html

 

That story always gave me the impression that he played fairly hard, but lived life a lot harder, had fun and didn't care who knew.

RIP Max ... hope some of that personality rubs off on others ...

 

Hey, if you can party that much and make it to 75, you're doing pretty good.

McGee also was one of the founders of Chi-Chi's, and it made him millions.

What a life Max had.

 

RIP. Loved reading about him in Kramer's book.

 

RIP Chi Chi's, too, the site of my first-ever date. :'(

 

Lombardi: "Gentleman, this is a football."
McGee: "Hey, coach, not so fast."

RIP

 

Why did Chi Chi's fold? The one around where I live was always busy. I went there all the time and the next thing I know, they're nowhere to be found.

 

That's a good question. Where I am it was a great place to go for Monday Night Football because it was also Margarita Mondays.

 

Hepatitis A outbreak in 2003 pretty much ruined their name.

RIP, Max McGee. Whenever old-timers get carried away pontificating about how Vince Lombardi wouldn't put up with anything less than 100 percent compliance, it's always fun to point out that the hero of Super Bowl I was out on the town getting obliterated before the biggest game of his life.