In My Own Words | 50 Years Later: Dolphins Hire Don Shula

[hordman]

Pretty cool that it's today:

https://www.miamidolphins.com/news/in-my-own-words-50-years-later-dolphins-hire-don-shula

Fifty years ago today on Feb. 18, 1970, Dolphins founder Joe Robbie addressed the media at The Jockey Club in Miami and named Don Shula as the team's new head coach and general manager. On the golden anniversary of that milestone date in Dolphins history, the Hall of Fame coach shares his memories of what it was like to leave Baltimore, where he had been both a player and head coach of the Colts, and take residence in South Florida.

[Dolphster]

The Holy Father of Football.      Everyone who knows me knows exactly who I am talking about when I refer to "The Coach".   His style would never work today, but if you keep him in the context of the era in which he coached, there was none better.   I am probably getting some of the details wrong, but back in his time as the Dolphins coach, they were playing in Oakland and someone found a copy of the Oakland playbook before the game.  The Dolphins obviously could have used this to their great advantage.  As the story goes, The Coach took it and locked it in his drawer in the visitors clubhouse without looking at it.  Some people will call that "stupidity" for not taking advantage of an edge.  But I call it integrity.