Turk Schonert, a Cincinnati Bengals quarterback for the majority of his National Football League career, died Thursday of a reported heart attack near his South Carolina home after turning 62 years old earlier this week, the team confirmed.
Schonert played for the Bengals from 1981 to 1985 and again from 1987 to 1989. His greatest highlight as a player was relieving Bengals starter Ken Anderson in the Bengals' first game of their 1981 season - which concluded with Cincinnati's appearance in Super Bowl XVI. In the game, Schonert rallied the Bengals from a 21-0 first-quarter deficit to beat the Seattle Seahawks, 27-21.