Mike Curtis, Fierce Linebacker for Colts, Dies at 77

Mike Curtis, Fierce Linebacker for Colts, Dies at 77
Former Baltimore Colts NFL football player Mike Curtis is shown before an NFL football game in Indianapolis, on Nov. 8, 2009. Darron Cummings/ File/AP Photo
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Mike Curtis, a hard-hitting, no-nonsense linebacker who helped the Colts win a Super Bowl during a 14-year NFL career spent predominantly in Baltimore, has died. He was 77.

Curtis died on April 20 in St. Petersburg, Florida. Son Clay said on Twitter his father died of “complications from CTE,” a degenerative brain disease.