Robert Pennywell (November 6, 1954 – October 7, 2022) was an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...

player who played

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for four seasons for the

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(NFL)'s

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, and two seasons for the

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of the

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(USFL). His cousin

Carlos Pennywell Carlos Jerome Pennywell (born March 18, 1956) is a former American football wide receiver. He played for the New England Patriots The New England Patriots are a professional American football team based in the Greater Boston area. They co ...

also played for the NFL. Pennywell died on October 7, 2022, at the age of 67.

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1954 births 2022 deaths 20th-century African-American sportspeople American football linebackers Atlanta Falcons players Captain Shreve High School alumni Grambling State Tigers football players Players of American football from Shreveport, Louisiana {{linebacker-1950s-stub