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Larry Allen, one of the most dominant offensive linemen in the NFL during a 12-year career spent mostly with the Dallas Cowboys, has died. He was 52.
Allen died suddenly on Sunday while on vacation with his family in Mexico, the Cowboys said.
A six-time All-Pro who was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2013, Allen said few words but let his blocking do the talking.
Allen, an 11-time Pro Bowler, found early success with the Cowboys, helping a team led by the trio of Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith and Michael Irvin — along with star free-agent signee Deion Sanders — win their final Super Bowl together in his second NFL season.
He was later inducted into the Cowboys’ Ring of Honor and appeared with several of his fellow living inductees at the ceremony enshrining former Cowboys coach and FOX Sports NFL analyst Jimmy Johnson into the Ring of Honor in December. Allen was also honored in the NFL 1990s and 2000s All-Decade teams and the 100th Anniversary All-Time Team.
The former Sonoma State lineman drafted in the second round by the Cowboys in 1994 — the year before the last of the franchise’s five Super Bowl titles — Allen once bench-pressed 700 pounds while dumbfounded teammates watched, then mobbed him.
Irvin, who is now a contributor to FS1’s “Undisputed,” shared a similar story about Allen’s strength while naming the soft-spoken offensive lineman one of his favorite Cowboys teammates of all time during an appearance on his colleague Keyshawn Johnson’s podcast, “All Facts No Brakes,” in January.
Allen was feared enough among his peers that notorious trash-talker John Randle of the Minnesota Vikings decided to keep to himself when he faced the Cowboys, so as to avoid making Allen mad.
“He never said nothin’,” Nate Newton, one of Allen’s mentors on Dallas’ offensive line, told The Associated Press for its Hall of Fame story on Allen 11 years ago. “Every now and then you’d hear him utter a cuss word or hear him laugh that old funny laugh he had.”
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Publish date : 2024-06-03 16:46:32
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