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Longtime Greenwich Resident Scott Kiernan, Former NFL Player, Dies At 43
A former NFL player from the area who was a team captain at Syracuse University has died at age 43.
Scott Weston Kiernan, who grew up in Greenwich, died suddenly on Thursday, Jan. 4 in Clermont, Florida. A cause of death was not released.
A former Syracuse football offensive lineman, Kiernan, was well known as the player who co-captained the 1998 Big East champions, before moving on to play for the NFL, first with the New York Giants and the Carolina Panthers.
The son of Gordon A. Kiernan, Jr. of Darien, and Kay Kiernan Brix of Newtown, Kiernan was born in Grosse Pointe, Mich., and grew up…
