Other players who retired because of the effects of concussion or other head injuries include Johnny Unitas, Roger Staubach, Merril Hoge, Troy Aikman, Steve Young, Dave Pear, Wayne Chrebet, and Al Toon. For memorials with more than one photo, additional photos will appear here or on the photos tab. In public, league doctors assailed his research. My dad said to me many times, especially when things were really bad, hed say, I want to work. He died at age 50, possibly from brain injuries sustained from his work. Ive been in 350,000 car accidents, Mike replied. I saw changes that shouldnt be in a 50-year-old mans brains, and also changes that shouldnt be in a brain that looked normal.. Please enter your email address and we will send you an email with a reset password code. They cant go out in public like normal people and stuff like that.. Cremated, Ashes given to family or friend, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8945061/mike-webster. You know, if your dad is important enough to get a limo ride to the Steelers game in Pittsburgh, he must be the mayor or something like that., I remember Kansas city a little better and the change to a large extent of how dad acted, Webster continued. This relationship is not possible based on lifespan dates. Professional Football Player. Of the 22 players who were part of all four Steeler Super Bowl teams, Webster was the last to leave and the first to die. Colin remembers that his father was shaking so much from his condition that his desperate solution was to buy a police Taser gun. Webster is also survived by two sons, Colin of Camp LeJeune, N.C., and Garrett; two daughters, Hillary and Brooke; two grandchildren; his father, William, of Harshaw, Wis.; two brothers, Reid and Joe Webster; and two sisters, Wendy and Jane Webster. Grateful to be playing in the big time, Webster overcompensated for his size by becoming the hardest-working, play-with-pain member of the team. Please contact Find a Grave at [emailprotected] if you need help resetting your password. He lived out of his pickup truck or in train stations between Wisconsin and Pittsburgh, even though his friends and former teammates offered to rent apartments for him. Dr. Omalu was very responsible and he did things right away. I do actively seek out sons, daughters and family members of NFL players. Bennet Omalu, the forensic neuropathologist who did the autopsy, said death was due to heart. And yes, I slept in a train station one time. There are no volunteers for this cemetery. Save to an Ancestry Tree, a virtual cemetery, your clipboard for pasting or Print. But I do promise you this: No matter what happens, I will answer the charges. I just thought he was angry at me all the time.. Mike Webster Pittsburgh Steelers Hall of Fame center Mike Webster was the first NFL player diagnosed with CTE. To view a photo in more detail or edit captions for photos you added, click the photo to open the photo viewer. In its March 2003 issue, Reader's Digest wrote about Webster's shattered life. [1], Webster died in 2002 at the age of 50 of a heart attack, and subsequently was the first former NFL player diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). '', At the time, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that Webster was ''homeless, unemployed, deep in debt, beset with medical ailments, lacking health insurance, in the midst of divorce, in the care of a psychiatrist and on medication, and involved in a complex lawsuit over real estate investments.''.