Aaron Thomas, legendary tight end of the New York Giants, died at his home in Corvallis, Oregon, after a long illness, the New York team announced this Friday.
“Remembering Aaron Thomas, one of the most prolific tight ends in Giants history. Rest in peace, Aaron,” the team wrote on its social networks.
Thomas played 116 regular-season games for the Giants from 1962 to 1970. Fifty-four years after his last game, he ranks seventeenth in franchise history with 254 receptions for 4,253 yards.
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He is tied with teammates Homer Jones and Del Shofner for sixth place with 35 touchdowns.
He is remembered for the pair of receptions he had in the NFL Championship Game that the Giants lost to the Green Bay Packers in 1963, before the Super Bowl era.
The former player was born in Dierks, Arkansas, on November 7, 1937. In 1948 his family moved to Weed, California, where he played football at Weed High School and later stood out in college football at Oregon State.
“Thomas is the best tight end I’ve ever coached,” Tommy Prothro, his coach at Oregon State, once said.
Aaron Thomas arrived in the NFL selected by the San Francisco 49ers in 1961 and remained with the Gambos until 1962. He then moved to the Giants, a team with which he retired in 1970 due to several injuries.
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After his playing career he became a stockbroker in Los Angeles, California. He later moved to Oregon, where he was head football coach at Klamath Falls High School for three years in the 1980s.
His son Robb Thomas, who also played in the NFL, selected by the Kansas City Chiefs in the fourth round of the 1989 draft, said arrangements for the funeral organized by his family have not yet been finalized.
2024-05-04 04:06:51
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