Big Daddy Lipscomb went, in an overdose of heroin, in 1963, which was puzzling to many of his old teammates who remembered his outsized fear of needles whenever the team doctor scheduled inoculations.
John Unitas, in his autobiography, wrote of his suspicions, adding that the injection was in the right arm and that Lipscomb was so right handed that it would have been impossible for him to inject the lethal dose.
