Jim Lynch’s cause of death has not been revealed publicly.
Jim Lynch, a member of the Chiefs Hall of Honor died on July 21, 2022. He 76.
His death was confirmed by Talk of Fame Network’s Rick Gosselin on Twitter.
“RIP Jim Lynch, former Notre Dame All-America LB who became a Pro Bowler with KC Chiefs & starter on defense that won Super Bowl IV”.
“Got to know Jim in my years covering the Chiefs in the 1970s. Class act on and off the field. He understood there was more to life than football”, Gosselin tweeted.
James Robert Lynch was an American football linebacker.
Jim Lynch was a second-round draft pick out of Notre Dame in 1967, where as a senior he was a defensive co-captain on the National Championship-winning team. He also won the Maxwell Award that year, crowning him as the best player in college football.
Lynch spent his entire 11-year NFL career with the Chiefs, playing with Pro Football Hall of Famers Willie Lanier and Bobby Bell.
Lynch played in 151 games for the Chiefs from 1967 to 1977, including making appearances in 148 consecutive games, recording 17 interceptions, 18 sacks, and 14 fumble recoveries. He made the Pro Bowl in 1968.
He was on the Chiefs’ Super Bowl IV championship team, which beat the Vikings 23-7.
Lynch was inducted into the Chiefs’ Hall of Honor in 1990 and the College Football Hall of Fame in 1992.
In 1973, Lynch and Daniel Thomas Hogarty founded D. Thomas and Associates, a food brokerage company specialising in packaging technology.