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Lance Rentzel, once a dazzling star for the Dallas Cowboys and 1969 NFL receiving yards leader, died at 82—his legacy overshadowed by a tragic fall from grace. A brief music career and marriage to actress Joey Heatherton couldn’t shield him from a 1970 conviction for exposing himself to a child, leading to probation and a shattered personal life. Divorced, traded to the Rams, and later banned for marijuana possession, his NFL career unraveled by 1975. Rentzel’s story is a sobering tale of how fame and talent can vanish under the weight of personal failure and legal fallout.

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