Don Shula dies at the age of 90.
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A coaching legend. He was missed from the game and will be missed from life as well. Heartfelt condolences to his family and to my fellow Dolphins fans.
The history of Don Shula was that he was hired as a young coach of the NFL Baltimore Colts when the Miami Dolphins were a new Franchise of the recently created AFL league. The Colts were an established franchise in the Old NFL whose dominant team in that era was the Cleveland Browns and Jim Browns.
After back and forth buzz between fans of the two leagues, someone got the idea to have them have a championship game AGAINST EACH OTHER after each league, National and American, had THEIR OWN SEPARATE CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES.
THIS EXTRAORDINARY GAME WAS TO BE CALLED "THE SUPER BOWL."
The first two Super Bowls were win by the Green Bay Packers, the dominant team at that time. Their quarterback was Bart Starr (nicknamed Super
Starr).
No one thought that the New York Jets, with their upstart young quarterback Joe Namath, would do anything but lose the THIRD
Super Bowl game to the NFL Champions, the BALTIMORE COLTS, headed by their young coach, Don Shula.
Well the AFL champs beat the Colts and the entire sports world flipped out! Flipped out, I tell you!
It led to Don Shula being FIRED by the Colts.
The merger of the two leagues then came.
Joe Robbe was smart enough to hire the young Don Shula to guide the newly created Miami Dolphins.
I became a Dolphin fan in 1967 following Bob Greise here from Purdue. Hail Purdue! R.I.P. Don Shula, the greatest coach of all time in any sport.
err... Greatest coach...With, of course, apologies to my fellow Purdue Boilermaker student, John Wooden, who turned out to be a pretty good Basketball coach.