In a 10-year career, the two-time All-Pro also won an AFL championship with the Jets before the league merged with the NFL.

A legendary NFL player from the Jets’ Super Bowl era has died. Gerry Philbin was 83 years old. The team called Philbin "the undersized, big-hearted, highly productive and well-decorated defensive end for almost one stellar decade" in the announcement of his death. His family said the cause of death was dementia, Sports Illustrated reported.

The Pawtucket, Rhode Island native went was the Jets’ third-round choice in the 1964 AFL Draft out of the University of Buffalo. He also was the Detroit Lions’ third-round pick in the