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He called everyone else "Little Daddy," so many rightfully called him "Big Daddy. There were many who claimed that Lipscomb revolutionized the defensive tackle position in the NFL. By comparison, Ernie Stautner also played tackle for the Steelers, good enough for the Hall of Fame, and he was , pounds.
What made Big Daddy so special was that for a man his size, he could really run. He was the first to go sideline to sideline. Other big guys couldn't do that. Knowing that he was a monster of a man back in the day when there were few if any like him, Lipscomb was committed to an offseason conditioning program that included being a professional wrestler. He insisted on being a "good guy" in the ring, since he was never considered such on the football field.
Big Daddy wrestled for several years to stay as lean as possible. Big Daddy was coming off one of his finest seasons ever in We can only anguish the unknown in wondering what might have been had Big Daddy Lipscomb lived to play the season. In the case of Lipscomb, the woes of the Pittsburgh Steelers paled in comparison to the tragedy of a lost human life. He had a voracious appetite for breakfast, women and whiskey. Often he combined any two or three of the items at one time.
His love of women and booze caused him to enter and exit three marriages. On the night of May 10, , Big Daddy played some softball before hitting the nightspots of Baltimore. Daddy and a companion named Tim Black partied with a couple of women until the wee hours. Afterwards they looked for some heroin, which Tim Black scored on a street corner. Back at Black's apartment, according to Black, they each took a needle full of heroin.
Black survived and Lipscomb did not. He died before an ambulance could get him to a hospital. One explanation for his demise was that his liver was already badly damaged by years of heavy drinking.
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