Tunch Ilkin
1957-2021
A Steeler Forever
It was only three months ago that I wrote this post about the retirement of former Steelers player Tunch Ilkin following a twenty-three year stint as a Steelers radio broadcaster, which followed a 14 year NFL career, thirteen of them with the Steelers. Sadly, Tunch died yesterday after complications from pneumonia and his ongoing battle with ALS, Lou Gehrig's Disease. He was a few weeks short of his 64th birthday. It is not for any of us to decree any death a merciful one, but I am glad to know that Ilkin, a man of great faith and community service, is at peaceful rest now.
What I wrote in the linked post above will serve as my Absent Friends tribute to him. Please go back and read it once again.
RIP Tunch Ilkin.
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