Sports Ex-Curtain anchor dies in car crash
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on January 19, 2008
DALLAS%26ndash;Ernie (Fats) Holmes, who won two Super Bowls as an anchor of Pittsburgh’s famed Steel Curtain defence in the 1970s, has died in a car crash. He was 59. Holmes was driving alone Thursday night when his car left the road and rolled several times near Lumberton, about 130 kilometres from Houston, a Texas Department of Public Safety dispatcher said yesterday. He was not wearing a seat belt and was ejected from the car, and pronounced dead at the scene, the department said. Holmes, an ordained minister, lived on a ranch in Wiergate.Holmes played for the Steelers from 1972-77 before being released because of ongoing weight problems and spent part of the 1978 season with New England before retiring. He played on one of the best defensive lines in NFL history with Steel Curtain teammates (Mean) Joe Greene, L.C. Greenwood and Dwight White.Associated Press
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