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Dallas Cowboys mourns the loss of one of the franchise’s famous defensive players.
Lee Roy Jordan, a star linebacker that played on Cowboys’ first Super Bowl-winning team in 1971, has died at the age of 84.
Cowboys announced Jordan’s death on Saturday, but did not give details of the timing or the cause of death.
Jordan played during the late Paul “Bear” Bryant during his prominent career in Alabama. Dallas chose him in the first round of 1963 NFL Draft.
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Linebacker Lee Roy Jordan from Dallas Cowboys is interviewed in the dressing room after the Super Bowl 18. January 1976 in the Orange Bowl in Miami. (Kidwiler Collection/Diamond Images)
Jordan was a big part of the team’s “Doomsday Defense”, who wore cowboys to a Super Bowl title in a 24-3 win over Miami Dolphins during the 1971 season. He retired from the NFL in 1976. Cowboys won their second championship the following year.
A five-time pro bowler, Jordan, was the first player introduced in the team’s honorary ring under Jerry Jones’ ownership.
Jordan remains number two on the team’s list of all times with 1,236. Darren Woodson, a security on the Dallas teams that won three Super Bowls in the 1990s, has 1,350.
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“With fearless instincts, leadership and merciless work ethics, Jordan was the bodily of cowboys’ spirit,” the team said. “From the field was his commitment to his community the center of his life after retirement in 1976.”
Dallas Cowboys Linebacker Lee Roy Jordan plays against Washington Redskins at RFK Stadium in Washington, DC, during the 1970s. (Focus on Sport/Getty Images)
Cowboys became known as “Next year’s Masters” after the famous “Ice Bowl” tab to Green Bay Packers in 1967, when Packers continued to win their second consecutive title in the Super Bowl II. Three years later, Dallas lost against Baltimore Colts at one last second field goal in the Super Bowl.
The breakthrough finally came a year later with a linebacker group led by Jordan and Chuck Howley along with the defense tackle Bob Lilly, whose 29-yard bag with Bob Griese was a signature game in the Super Bowl victory.
Lee Roy Jordan remains number two on Cowboys’ All-Time Tackling List with 1,236. (Perry Knotts/Getty Images)
Jordan was introduced to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1983.
