Teammates mourn passing of former Yokosuka QB great Reedy

One of Yokosuka Naval Base’s standout football players in the mid- to late-1990s, Michael Reedy, died of a heart attack in his sleep on Aug. 3 in his hometown of Mililani, Hawaii. He was 58.

Reedy, a longtime civilian with the Defense Information Systems Agency at Yokosuka and in Hawaii, quarterbacked the Yokosuka Seahawks base football team in the 1990s and also the base’s senior gridiron team, the Greyhawks, to unbeaten seasons in 1997 and ’98.

Reedy also worked as a referee for both the NFL and college football, assigned to NFL American Bowl exhibition games in Tokyo as a linesman and University of Hawaii home games and the annual Aloha Bowl post season game.

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