Jerry Fowler, a former NFL lineman and Louisiana politician, died at the age of 68 on Monday because of complications from an undisclosed surgery. Fowler, who played briefly for the Houston Oilers, had a colorful post-NFL life as the former Louisiana elections commissioner served four years in prison and was released in 2005 following a conviction for taking money to rig voting machine contracts. Fowler pleaded guilty in 2000 to a criminal act that deprived the state of $900,000 and may have netted him as much as $3 million. “He had surgery Friday night, and he was recuperating from that surgery and operation, and I don’t know, but he just had heart failure, and he died suddenly,” said James A. Wayne Sr., whom the Associated Press described as a family friend.
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