Former Dallas Cowboys receiver John "Golden" Richards died Friday of congestive heart failure. He was 73.
Richards had been in declining health in recent years, undergoing four surgeries after breaking a hip in a fall in 2022, his brother Doug told the Deseret News. He was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2011.
"He has left us and gone to a better place," Doug Richards told the Deseret News. "He fought pretty good there to the end, until it was his time."
A star at BYU, Golden Richards was a second-round pick of the Cowboys in 1973, spending five-plus seasons in Dallas.