The Dallas Cowboys are mourning the loss of a beloved Super Bowl champion. The NFC East franchise announced this week that a former Super Bowl champion had passed away. The former Dallas Cowboys standout was just 70 years old.

Tom Rafferty, who played 14 seasons at center and right guard for the Dallas Cowboys and won Super Bowl XII with the team to cap the 1977 season, died Thursday at the age of 70.

Tom Rafferty, an anchor of the Dallas Cowboys ' offensive line during the late 1970s and 1980s and a member of the franchise's Super Bowl XII-winning team, died Thursday after suffering a stroke. Rafferty, who had been hosptalized since early May according to his daughter, was 70.