The coronavirus has claimed another member of the New Orleans Saints family. News broke late Saturday night that legendary former Saints kicker Tom Dempsey died in hospice due to complications suffered after he contracted COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus. He was 73. He tested positive for the virus in late March, as did many other residents of the Lambeth House assisted living facility he resided in.
Dempsey only played a few years with the Saints early in the team’s history, but just about every Saints fan knows someone who claims to have been in the old Tulane Stadium in 1970 when Dempsey hit a walk-off, 63-yard field goal to defeat the Detroit Lions.