Latest Update About ;Jack Tatum Darryl Stingley Video, Darryl Stingley, Darryl Stingley Hit Video, Raiders, Oakland Raiders, Jack Tatum Dies of Heart Attack, Jack Tatum, a three-time Pro Bowler with the Oakland Raiders and a star at Ohio State, died Tuesday of a heart attack. Tatum was 61.Few athletes were ever known for one play like Tatum.For despite three Pro Bowl appearances, a win on a Super Bowl team in Oakland and a degree of secondary fame as the Raider off whom the ball bounced to Franco Harris for the “Immacualte Reception,” Tatum is always defined by a single hit: The one in a 1978 exhibition game that left Darryl Stingley a quadriplegic for life.It not only changed the lives of the two men involved, it changed the NFL — it can be argued that the league’s emphasis on safety that continues today began because of that play.Even before that, Tatum was known for his vicious hits on a Raiders team, run by Al Davis and coached by John Madden, that thrived on its fearsome image. A first-round pick by Oakland from Ohio State, the 18th overall, in 1971, Tatum was known as “The Assassin.” “I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault,” he once said.That statement haunted him after that play on Aug. 12, 1978, when Tatum hit Stingley in the back just as he caught the ball over the middle in that meaningless game at the Oakland Coliseum. Stingley lay motionless on the field and never regained use of either his arms or legs, dying in 2007 at age 55 of heart disease and pneumonia caused by his quadraplegic state. Stingley never blamed Tatum and there was no penalty on the play for what at the time was a clean hit — it most likely would not be today. And Tatum never modified his style, which endures on NFL highlight reels in a hit Tatum made on Vikings receiver Sammy White in a 32-14 win by the Raiders in Super Bowl XI.