Former Oakland Raiders center Barret Robbins, who famously went missing ahead of Super Bowl XXXVII, has died. He was 52.<\/p>\n
The Raiders announced<\/a> Robbins\u2019 death on X last Friday.<\/p>\n Robbins spent his entire NFL<\/a> career with the Raiders, playing in Oakland from 1995 to 2003. He earned first-team NFL All-Pro honors in 2002.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n \u201cThe Raiders family is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Barret Robbins. Oakland\u2019s second-round draft pick out of TCU in 1995, he was among the league\u2019s top centers over nine seasons with the Raiders, earning first-team All-Pro and Pro Bowl honors in 2002,\u201d the Raiders said in a statement.<\/p>\n \u201cHe played in 121 career games with 105 starts, all with the Silver and Black. The thoughts and condolences of the entire Raider Nation are with Barret\u2019s family and friends during this difficult time.\u201d<\/p>\n According to the Associated Press<\/a>, Robbins left the Raiders\u2019 team hotel the night before Super Bowl XXXVII in 2003.<\/p>\n The report states that he did not take his medication for depression as the team was preparing for the Super Bowl in San Diego.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n He then reportedly crossed the Mexican border to Tijuana before returning to the team hotel. He was suspended for the Super Bowl as the Raiders were blown out by the Buccaneers.<\/p>\n Robbins was later diagnosed with bipolar disorder, according to the AP.<\/p>\n Legendary NFL receiver Tim Brown, who was a teammate of Barret Robbins, shared news of Robbins\u2019 death last Thursday night.<\/p>\n Brown said Robbins\u2019 wife called to inform him that her husband had died peacefully in his sleep.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s with great regret I tell you I just received a call from Marissa Robbins informing me that Raiders All Pro center Barret Robbins passed away overnight,\u201d Tim Brown posted<\/a> on X. \u201cThankfully, he passed peacefully in his sleep. Please pray for their girls, his family and tons of teammates who will be affected by this!\u201d<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Former Raiders star quarterback Rich Gannon, who was named the NFL MVP in 2002, also posted about Robbins\u2019 death.<\/p>\n \u201cSad to hear of the passing of my center and former teammate Barret Robbins. RIP my brother!\u201d Gannon said<\/a>.<\/p>\n Read the original article on pennlive.com<\/a>. Add pennlive.com<\/a> as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Oakland Raiders center Barret Robbins, who famously went missing ahead of Super Bowl XXXVII, has died. He…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[108087,109772,752,143,145,144,12158,12844,11595,11730,109773],"class_list":["post-245260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-barret-robbins","tag-marissa-robbins","tag-nfl","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-oakland-raiders","tag-pro-bowl","tag-raiders","tag-super-bowl","tag-tim-brown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}