{"id":29628,"date":"2024-07-15T01:31:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T06:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=29628"},"modified":"2024-07-25T21:28:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T02:28:39","slug":"jacoby-jones-a-star-of-baltimores-most-recent-super-bowl-title-has-died-at-age-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=29628","title":{"rendered":"Jacoby Jones, a star of Baltimore&#8217;s most recent Super Bowl title, has died at age 40"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">BALTIMORE &#8212;&nbsp;Former NFL receiver Jacoby Jones, whose 108-yard kickoff return in 2013 remains the longest touchdown in Super Bowl history, has died. He was 40.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Houston Texans, Jones&#8217; team for the first five seasons of his career, announced his death on Sunday. In&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NFLPA\/status\/1812546014290596022\">a statement<\/a>&nbsp;released by the NFL Players Association, his family said he died at his home in New Orleans. A cause of death was not given.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Jones played from 2007-15 for the Texans, Baltimore Ravens, San Diego Chargers and Pittsburgh Steelers, and he made several huge plays for the Ravens during their most recent Super Bowl title season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Jones was a key part of Baltimore&#8217;s \u201cMile High Miracle\u201d in a playoff game at Denver in January 2013. He caught&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HmRYZOuXHrA\">a 70-yard touchdown pass<\/a>&nbsp;with 31 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter to tie the score. The Ravens eventually won in double overtime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In the Super Bowl that postseason against San Francisco, Jones caught a 56-yard TD pass from eventual game MVP Joe Flacco. Then&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yl4sxj_z-NI\">he raced 108 yards<\/a>&nbsp;to the end zone to open the second half and give Baltimore a 28-6 lead. The Ravens held on for a 34-31 victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">That Super Bowl was played in New Orleans, where Jones grew up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cMy favorite football play was when Jacoby was talking to his mom in the end zone, just before a late-game kickoff return against the Vikings in a snowstorm shootout. Jacoby then raced to catch the ball and run it back for a touchdown,\u201d Ravens coach John Harbaugh said in a statement. \u201cMy favorite Jacoby personal moment was every time I saw his smiling face full of joy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Jones made The Associated Press All-Pro team as a kick returner for the 2012 season. Shortly after that, he appeared on &#8220;Dancing with the Stars.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cJacoby was one of the most fun-loving teammates and people I\u2019ve ever been around,&#8221; former Texans pass-rushing star J.J. Watt said on social media. \u201cAlways dancing and laughing, with a permanent smile on his face. Gone far, far too soon.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In April, Jones became coach of the Beaumont Renegades, an arena football team in Texas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cWhat can be said about him as a football player is only scratching the surface of who he was as a man,\u201d the Renegades said in a statement. \u201cWhen you needed something, he was there. When you called him, he answered. Didn&#8217;t matter if you were a family member, a close friend, player he coached, etc.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Sports\/wireStory\/jacoby-jones-star-baltimores-recent-super-bowl-title-111931616\">abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BALTIMORE &#8212;&nbsp;Former NFL receiver Jacoby Jones, whose 108-yard kickoff return in 2013 remains the longest touchdown in Super Bowl history, has died. He was 40. The Houston Texans, Jones&#8217; team for the first five seasons of his career, announced his death on Sunday. In&nbsp;a statement&nbsp;released by the NFL Players Association, his family said he died [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5782],"tags":[1427,7212,2210,29634],"class_list":["post-29628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ep","tag-baltimore","tag-champion","tag-dead","tag-jacoby-jones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29631,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29628\/revisions\/29631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}