Buffalo Bills legend Billy Shaw has tragically died at the age of 85, his family announced on Friday.
The Hall of Famer, who spent nearly a decade in the NFL as an offensive guard passed away at his home in Toccoa, Georgia.
The cause of death was revealed to be hyponatremia, a condition where there is an abnormally low level of sodium in a person’s blood.
Shaw’s wife, Patsy, and their three daughters were at his bedside. A second-round draft pick out of Georgia Tech, he went on to become an all-time AFL great who powered the Bills’ famed rushing attack of the 1960s.
‘Billy’s all-around athleticism brought a new dimension to the guard position and made the 1960s Buffalo Bills a formidable opponent capable of bruising opponents with a punishing rushing attack,’ Hall of Fame president Jim Porter said Friday in a statement.
‘And while Billy could be unforgiving to anyone in his way on the football field, he was the classic example of the ‘Southern gentlemen’ off the field to everyone he encountered.’
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