Calvin Muhammad, a state track champion at Raines who won a Super Bowl ring with the Los Angeles Raiders in an NFL football career, died at 64.
He also played three more seasons in the league with Washington and San Diego through 1987, and spent stints in the Canadian Football League both before and after his NFL years. As late as 1991, the Sacramento Surge of the fledgling World League of American Football selected him in its inaugural draft, although he did not see game-day action during the regular season.
A gifted musician who played the trombone in high school, he continued to perform musically during his athletic career, including with the Northern Virginia Symphony. A 1985 Associated Press profile described him playing every part —"fluegelhorn, trombone, soprano sax, bass and lead guitars, drums, keyboard and synthesizer" on his own jazz recordings in his Virginia basement studio.
At the time, his mark was the third-fastest ever recorded in a Florida High School Athletic Association championship meet and ranked him among the top 10 high school sprinters in the nation — a performance within qualifying standards for the U.S. Olympic Trials ahead of the 1976 Games in Montreal, although he did not compete at the event in order to focus on football.
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