Booth Lusteg
Placekicker, American football player
1939 – 2012
Who was Booth Lusteg?
Gerald Booth Lusteg was a placekicker in the National Football League who played for the Buffalo Bills, Miami Dolphins, Pittsburgh Steelers and the Green Bay Packers. Lusteg played collegiate baseball for the University of Connecticut and played football professionally for 4 seasons. He retired in 1969. He came out of retirement in 1974 and played one season for the Portland Storm.
Lusteg, who at the time was an unsuccessful actor, first played football for the Boston Sweepers of the Atlantic Coast Football League. After the Bills lost kicker Pete Gogolak, Lusteg was one of nearly 100 people who applied to replace him. Lusteg was one of the only players with kicking experience out of the group: his top two competitors were a German bricklayer and a one-armed cyclops.
Lusteg died on July 12, 2012 after suffering from lung cancer for three years.
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- Born
- May 8, 1939
New Haven - Also known as
- Gerald Booth Lusteg
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Connecticut
- Lived in
- New Haven
- Died
- Jul 12, 2012
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on July 23, 2013
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