My man, Ottis (Anderson)...

Former NFL all-pro LB Sam Mills died earlier today.

The only reason the name immediately hit me was because of the legendary Tecmo Super Bowl game on the old Nintendo system. It's starting to get a little weird to break that out when I'm at my parents' house... guys like Derrick Thomas, Reggie White, Jerome Brown and now Mills are all in the game. Now, they're dead.

I kind of think that maybe that offensive lineman from the Steelers who freaked out and died in a police chase last summer (Justin Strzelczyk) might have been in the game too.

Add on guys like Tony Eason, Steve Grogan and the legendary Babe Laufenberg, all of whom were walking corpses at this point in their careers, and it's like the Night of the Living Dead every time you pop that sucker in.