FILE - Sam Huff, foreground, and Don Chandler, both New York Giants' backs, relax in the dressing room at Yankee Stadium in New York on Dec. 11, 1963. Huff, the hard-hitting Hall of Fame linebacker who helped the Giants reach six NFL title games from the mid-1950s to the early 1960s and later became a popular player and announcer in Washington, died Saturday, Nov. 13, 2021. He was 87. Credit: AP/Eddie Adams
Sam Huff was standing on the sideline watching practice at Washington’s training facility several years ago, doing his homework for the radio broadcasts he’d been doing for years alongside Hall of Fame former quarterback Sonny Jurgensen.