Pete Lammons Death: Pete Lammons, a previous Jets tight end who helped New York win Super Bowl III, kicked the bucket in a mishap at a fishing competition Thursday, as indicated by an assertion delivered by Major League Fishing.

Lammons, 77, fell into the Sam Rayburn Reservoir close to Brookeland, Texas, while partaking in the MLF Toyota Series competition, as per the assertion. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department recuperated Lammons’ body Thursday evening. Lammons’ nephew, Lance Lammons, said his uncle had been recuperating from various medical procedures before the occasion.

Lammons played for the Jets for six seasons in the wake of being chosen in the eighth round of the 1966 AFL draft. He went to the Pro Bowl in 1967 and got six passes for 65 yards and a score in the 1968 postseason – remembering two gets for 13 yards for the Jets’ 16-7 miracle prevail upon the Baltimore Colts.

Lammons, who completed his vocation with the Packers in 1972, counted 185 gatherings for 2,364 yards and 14 scores in his profession.