good news; Randy White returns to Dallas Cowboys with full commitment……
The longtime Dallas Cowboys star envisioned spending his senior years doing some spoiling, cracking some corny jokes and maybe drifting off in a recliner. The good stuff.
Instead, in the wake of a family member’s fatal overdose, White has a hands-on role assisting his grieving daughter, Jordan, in raising her 5-year-old daughter and 11-year-old son.
“I wanted to be Paw-Paw,” White, 70, said. “I didn’t want to be Dad.”
Jesse Dempsey, his son-in-law, died in 2018 at age 42 after ingesting a single pill that he thought was an approved painkiller, White said. Dempsey was a charismatic professional snowboarder who one friend described as “the most athletic human being I have ever seen.” But he wanted something for his achy knee after a day of planting trees at an Arbor Day event in Colorado. White said a friend offered him a pill, and Dempsey threw it down as casually as an aspirin.
It turned out to be poison in disguise.
Like most counterfeit pills sold on the street, this painkiller was laced with fentanyl, according to White. Even a tiny amount of the stuff — imagine two grains of salt — can cause an overdose.
“But he took it,” White said. “And now he’s dead.”
At the time, Jordan was pregnant was the couple’s second child. Wh
