I hate looking up people online only to discover they’re dead. Old friends are the worse, but so, too, are old athletes I remember from my youth. Old singers, the same way.Latest example of stumbling across dead people is the story of former NFL placekicker Tom Dempsey. I was old enough to watch the game when he kicked a 63-yard field goal in 1970. With New Orleans at the time, Dempsey’s record would stand for more than 40 years.As most sports fans already know, Dempsey was born with no toes on his right foot and no fingers on his right ...