Tony ‘Goose’ Siragusa, NFL champ, broadcaster dead at 55

Tremendous Bowl winner Tony Siragusa, who went on to be a common NFL broadcaster, is dead at 55.

The Kenilworth, N.J., indigenous died instantly Wednesday, according to a assertion from Baltimore Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti posted to the team’s Twitter feed.

“Goose,” as he was known about the league, put in practically the second fifty percent of his 12 calendar year NFL occupation in Baltimore immediately after participating in 7 year with the Indianapolis Colts. He also served 12 many years as a sideline analyst for Fox Network.

“He was a special man or woman and obviously a single of the most preferred players in Ravens record,” Bisciotti wrote.

The 6-foot-3 defensive tackled weighed in at 340 pounds, which assisted solidify a Ravens protection that topped the Giants 34-7 in Tremendous Bowl XXXV immediately after the 2000 year.

“There was no one like Goose,” Brian Billick, who coached that crew, reported in statement. “We would not have won the Super Bowl with no him.”

Previous Pro Bowl defensive back again Rod Woodson played guiding Siragusa on that 2001 Tremendous Bowl workforce. He remembered Goose as being “always the lifestyle of the social gathering.”

The result in of Siragusa’s Wednesday morning demise has not been described. Numerous shops described that he died is his snooze.

Siragusa played collegiately at the University of Pittsburgh, but a knee injuries brought about him to go undrafted coming out of school. He signed as a totally free agent with the Indianapolis Colts, recording occupation highs in tackles (88) and sacks (5) in 1994.

He then moved on to Baltimore, where he spent his ultimate five seasons.

Siragusa was a strike as a sideline analyst for Fox from 2003-15. He also dabbled in acting, appearing as a Russian mobster in the 2002 Movie “25th Hour” and enjoying Frankie Cortese in 4 episode of “The Sopranos.”

From 2007-16, he hosted the do-it-yourself exhibit “Man Caves” on Do-it-yourself Network.

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