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1980 pro football Hall of fame game

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ScWildthing61

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I had an old video from this game pop up on my YouTube video list, for those who don't know it was a scoreless tie between the San Diego Chargers and Green Bay Packers that was called with about 5 and a half minutes left in the game due to lightning strikes, the players had been playing in a virtual monsoon for probably the five minutes prior to that decision.

Anyway, I noticed that the Chargers starting RB in that game was a former Gamecock named Clarence Williams. Now I know a great deal about our football history, but I'd never heard of this guy before seeing this video. I'm assuming he was our RB just before George Rogers got here, for those who watched back then, was he a good player, decent, or below average? Also based off what I've read he was murdered in 1994, what happened there?
 
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His gamecock career was before my time, but I remember having his early 1980 Topps cards in the 1980's and figuring out he went to South Carolina, but I found the below, I wonder if they ever solved it?​

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EX-NFL BACK SHOT TO DEATH​

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PUBLISHED: September 19, 1994 at 1:00 a.m. | UPDATED: August 9, 2021 at 5:30 p.m.

Clarence Williams, a former running back for the San Diego Chargers and the Washington Redskins, died Sunday after being shot while sitting in his car.

Williams, 39, a star at the University of South Carolina in the middle 1970s, died about 4 a.m. at Richland Memorial Hospital, a sheriff’s department spokesman said.

He was shot in the back about 11:45 p.m. Saturday while he and a friend were at an intersection.
Investigators said they havenot identified a suspect or determined a motive. They would not release the name of Williams’ friend, who was trying to drive Williams to a hospital for treatment when authorities arrived.

Investigators did say that the shots came from outside the car and that they have not ruled out the possibility of a drive-by shooting.
Williams played for the Chargers from 1977 to 1981 and the Redskins in 1982 and 1983.
 
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Found a picture, (Not a lot out there) he was listed as 5-10, 198 lbs. in the NFL.

Tom Jackson is about to end up on his but, LOL

 
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