It is a somber day around the league after news came down that a former Super Bowl champion had passed away.
Jim Turner, who kicked three field goals for the New York Jets in their momentous Super Bowl III victory, passed away Saturday from heart failure with his family by his side.
Turner was 82.
Turner was a 19th-round draft pick of Washington in 1963 and was picked up the next year by the Jets. During the Jets’ championship 1968 season, Turner kicked a then-record 145 points on a record 34 field goals.
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In that huge upset over the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III, Turner scored 10 points in the Joe Namath-led 16-7 win on field goals of 32, 30, and 9.
He would go on to join the Broncos prior to the 1971 season via trade for Bobby Howfield in a straight-up kicker trade. He would stay there for nine years, and set all their significant kicking and scoring records that lasted until Jason Elam broke them some 30 years later.
At the time of his retirement, Turner was not only the Broncos’ all-time leader in field goals (151), extra points (283), and points scored (742).
Jim Turner is also a member of the Broncos’ Ring of Fame.
He never missed a game in his career, finishing with an Iron Man streak of 228 consecutive games played.
