Jerry Richardson : is still alive | Daughter | Age

Jerry Richardson, the founder of the Carolina Panthers, passed away Wednesday night at age 86, is not still alive. Details here.

Jerry Richardson : is still alive | Daughter | Age

Richardson was born in Spring Hope, North Carolina. After graduating from Sanford High School in Fayetteville, North Carolina, he went to Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Richardson was an Associated Press Little All-American selection in 1957 and ’58.

He still holds Wofford’s single-game record with 241 receiving yards vs. Newberry in 1956 and is the record holder for touchdown receptions in a season (9 in 1958) and in a career (21).

As a senior at Wofford, he scored 72 points on nine touchdowns, 12 extra points and two field goals.

Richardson calls being elected team captain in 1958 his greatest honor. In 1983, he was chosen to Wofford’s All-Time Football team as a receiver.

is Jerry Richardson still alive 

Jerry Richardson, the Carolina Panthers founder and for years one of the NFL’s most influential owners until a scandal forced him to sell the team, has died. He was 86.

Richardson died peacefully Wednesday night at his Charlotte home, the team said in a statement.

Richardson became the first former NFL player to own a team since Chicago’s George Halas when he landed the expansion Panthers in 1993.

A former teammate of Johnny Unitas who caught a touchdown pass in the Baltimore Colts’ victory over the New York Giants in the 1959 NFL championship game, Richardson only spent two years in the NFL before venturing into the restaurant business.

He used his championship bonus money to open the first Hardee’s in Spartanburg, South Carolina — close to where he had attended Wofford College.

He went on to make his fortune in the restaurant business, becoming chief executive officer of Flagstar, the sixth-largest food service company in the country at the time

Jerry Richardson Daughter 

Ashley Richardson Allen, Mark Richardson, and John Richardson are surviving children.

Not much is known about her daughter 

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Jerry Richardson, the Carolina Panthers founder and for years one of the NFL’s most influential owners until a scandal forced him to sell the team, has died. He was 86.

“Jerry Richardson’s contributions to professional football in the Carolinas are historic,” current Panthers owner David Tepper and his wife Nicole said in a statement. “With the arrival of the Panthers in 1995, he changed the landscape of sports in the region and gave the NFL fans here a team to call their own.”

Richardson said in 2018 his greatest mission in life was bringing the NFL to the Carolinas.

The Panthers began play in 1995 and Richardson quickly built Carolina into one of the league’s model franchises, while becoming a powerful figure in the NFL.

Richardson served on several high-level owners committees, playing a key role in labor negotiations with the players’ union.

But Richardson’s reputation took a tremendous hit when he announced he was selling the Panthers on Dec. 17, 2017, – the same day Sports Illustrated reported that four former Panthers employees received significant monetary settlements due to inappropriate sexually suggestive language and actions by Richardson.

It was also reported he used a racial slur directed toward a team scout.