‘A Man’s Man’: Cowboys Draft Pick Scott Pelluer Dies at 64

“There was just something about him - a vibrancy, a passion,” Steve Pelluer, a quarterback for the Cowboys, says of the passing of brother Scott.

FRISCO - Dallas Cowboys 1981 draft pick linebacker Scott Pelluer died late Monday. He was 64.

Pelluer’s brother Steve, the former Cowboys quarterback, told the Seattle Times that Scott Pelluer was placed in a medically induced coma at a Seattle hospital following a cardiac arrest late last week.

“There was just something about him — a vibrancy, a passion,” Steve Pelluer, a quarterback for the Cowboys and Chiefs, told the newspaper on Tuesday. “He was a man’s man.”

Scott Pelluer was a star linebacker at Washington State starting in the 1977 season and lasting through the 1980 season before the Cowboys made him a fourth-round pick in the 1981 NFL Draft. The opportunity to team up with his brother as a part of “America’s Team” never quite came to fruition, however. Steve joined Dallas in 1984, but Scott never suited up in a regular-season game for the Cowboys, as they opted to cut the linebacker coming out of training camp.

Scott then hooked on with the New Orleans Saints for a five-year pro career before eventually going into coaching.

Said brother Steve: “He had great friends. He cared for people well. And his players enjoyed playing for him.”

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