Norris Weese, a former quarterback for the Denver Broncos, died Friday, January 20, 1995. He was 43.  The cause of death was Ewing’s Sarcoma, a rare type of bone cancer that typically affects children and young adults.

Weese was born on Sunday, August 12, 1951 in Baton Rouge.  He played baseball and football at the University of Mississippi.  He had the dubious task of following a legend, Archie Manning, at Ole Miss.  In 1971, Weese led Mississippi to the Peach Bowl Crown.
Weese played for the Denver Broncos from 1976 to 1979, backing up Craig Morton for three seasons and starting in 1979.  Weese is best remembered for relieving Craig Morton in the second half of Super Bowl XII.  He led the Broncos to a touchdown on a third quarter drive to cut his tem’s deficit to 20-10.  He eventually won the starting role over Morton in 1979, but a knee injury during that season ended his career.   Weese is third on the Broncos' career proficiency list among quarterbacks, completing 143 of 251 passes for 1,887 yards and 7 touchdowns.

Following retirement from football, Weese worked in Denver as a certified public accountant.

Weese began suffering with chronic back pain in 1994.  After multiple visits to physicians, testing finally detected that a tumor was growing on Weese’s spinal column.  The tumor was ultimately diagnosed as Ewing’s Sarcoma.

The Weese family (wife Sandy, daughters Melissa and Andrea and son Jacob) will be working with Dani’s Foundation on the development of a specific research fund that will work to provide annual financial grants to those scientific investigators who are working to find the cause and the cure for Ewing’s Sarcoma and the other other forms of pediatric sarcomas that are affecting and taking the lives of children and young adults. 

The Norris Weese Ewing’s Sarcoma Research Fund will not only honor the memory of this amazing man but will help those in need of support:  those researchers who need funding to pursue their science and those patients who are counting on a cure. 

Won’t you help?

To make a tax-deductible donation to The Norris Weese Ewing’s Sarcoma Research Fund, send your gift to Dani’s Foundation, 1600 Broadway, Suite 2400, Denver, CO 80202 or click on the "Donate NOW" button above to make a secure on-line donation. 

Your support is the key to our ultimate success over these dreadful diseases that are taking the lives of those that we love!
Thank YOU!