- Jim Clack
NFL player
DateOfBirth=October 26 ,1947
Birthplace=Rocky Mount, NC
DateOfDeath=April 7 ,2006 (age age|1947|10|26|2006|4|7)
Deathplace=Greensboro, NC
College=Wake Forest
Position=Center, Guard
DraftedYear=1971
DraftedRound=5 / Pick 106
ProBowls=
years=1971-1977
1978-1981
teams=Pittsburgh Steelers New York Giants
PFR=
DatabaseFootball=CLACKJIM01James Thomas Clack (
October 26 ,1947 –April 7 ,2006 ) was anAmerican football guard in theNational Football League . He played for 11 seasons between 1971 and 1981. He died ofheart failure in 2006, after a four-year battle withcancer .Clack graduated from
Wake Forest University . He began his career with thePittsburgh Steelers , and he was part of twoSuper Bowl championship teams in 1974 and 1975. After leaving Pittsburgh in 1977, Clack spent 4 more years with theNew York Giants . It was his snap thatJoe Pisarcik fumbled away toHerman Edwards at the end of theNovember 19 ,1978 game between the Giants and Edwards'Philadelphia Eagles atGiants Stadium , costing the team a certain victory in a play since known as "The Miracle at the Meadowlands " to Eagles' fans and "The Fumble" to Giants' fans (Clack had snapped it earlier than Pisarcik, still trying to get his team on board a controversial play call,Fact|date=February 2008 expected due to the imminent expiration of theplay clock ).Clack was inducted into the Wake Forest's hall of fame in 1981, and into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame in 2004.
External links
* [http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2401179 Obituary, from ESPN.com]
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