The triple winner of the Super Bowl, Jim Fahnhorst, died at the age of 66, announced the 49ers of San Francisco on Thursday.
The team announced that Fahnhorst died on Wednesday but did not disclose a cause of death.
Fahnhorst, a secondary, played seven years with the 49ers from 1984 to 1990, helping the club win the Super Bowls XIX, XXIII and XXIV.
“We are deeply saddened by the death of former secondary Jim Fahnhorst,” the team said in a statement. “Our thoughts go to his family.”
Initially selected in the fourth round of the NFL draft of 1982 by the Vikings du Minnesota, Fahnhorst chose to play in the USFL before joining the 49ers in 1984.
Fahnhorst’s older brother Keith played as an offensive line player with the 49ers from 1974 to 1987. He died in 2018, also at the age of 66.
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