Former Dallas Cowboys Ron Springs Dead at 54
|Ron Springs, running back for the Dallas Cowboys from 1979-1984 died Thursday of a heart attack. Springs was 54. He is survived by his wife Adriane and son, Shawn Springs, who plays cornerback in the NFL.
Springs post-football life has been filled with health problems. He was diagnosed with diabetes in 1990. He was told in 2004 that he would need a kidney transplant. In 2007, Spring’s teammate Everson Walls donated his kidney to Springs. The two then set-up the Ron Springs & Everson Walls Gift For Life Foundation in order to help others with kidney disease.
Springs had been in a coma since 2007 when he suffered cardiac arrest while undergoing an operation to remove a cyst from his elbow.