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Curley Culp

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Curley Culp was a Hall of Fame nose tackle who won a Super Bowl with the Kansas City Chiefs.

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To the family, many, many friends, and fans of this great person who played a defensive lineman out of Arizona State in 1968 by the Denver Broncos. Mr. Curley Culp was a Hall of Fame nose tackle who won a Super Bowl with the Kansas City Chiefs. He had a wonderful career in football. May you find comfort in your wealth of fond memories together with Mr. Curley Culp. May the God of comfort bless your grieving hearts with strength, loving kindness and peace as the world copes with the loss of...

To the Culp family, we offer our condolences and prayers. May God bless and comfort you.

Hi Collette, I am so sorry to hear about Curly´s passing. I remember the cute stories you would share about him and your boys when we worked together at Missouri City Middle School. I hope you and Chad and Christopher are doing okay. I´m happy that you have the blessings of your sons and grandkids to help you through this sad time. Becky

It was an honor to meet Curly and his wife after I purchased his dog named Tojo,, I pray Collette can find peace knowing she had a very good husband and provider,, Curly is with Tojo in heaven.

While many of you know Curley as a NFL Hall of Farmer, I have known him from our days in Yuma as a hard working and competitive athlete. I went to the other high school, Kofa, and played football against him. In our senior year, we both worked at a ice house moving 300 lb. ice blocks to waiting box cars shipping cantaloupes to market. He could move the blocks with ease and you would never know of his state championship wrestling prowess unless you asked. You was a most humble, genuine and...

Curley started taking classes at UT Austin in a graduate program just as I was leaving. We overlapped by a semester. I grew close to him, like a younger brother even though he had a few years on me. I remember his smile, his laughter and his heart. He was especially kind to my wife and me as we would travel to this or that event together.

We were on a visit to a college in Laredo being introduced to the President. The President stopped and said, “I know who you are, my whole...

When I lived in Austin, I got to know Curley well, my business required a lot of travel to and from the airport and Curley owned a town car service which I frequently used back in 2000 He was a gentle giant, always had a big smile and looking for a laugh. In my travels he saved me many times, between leaving stuff in the car and getting to the airport. He also admired my passion for the Longhorns and Luv Ya Blue. As a little kid my dad would take me to the Dome to watch the Oilers. ...

I am deeply saddened at losing a long time friend. I knew Curley back about 1972 while doing a local cartoon strip about the Chiefs. It was a fun and easy task as Curley and his teammates naturally did a lot of onery antics. He commissioned me to do a portrait of him which was very much the softer side of him. I hope he always kept it and that his family too enjoyed it. Once in the late 70’s I was down in Houston and looked him up. Same fun loving crazy Curley, just in an Oiler’s uniform. We...