Former Chargers coach a step closer to where he belongs: in Pro Football Hall of Fame
I can see him clearly. Nothing else going on in the world. Nothing but football. Not war. Not famine. Not pestilence. Scowling, looking as though he’d just had two dozen bad clams. Focused on his bewildered prey like a ravenous lion. Hunched over on the sideline. Hands on his knees. Shirt tightly tucked in. Golf shoes without spikes planted firmly on the ground.Off the field, he didn’t say much, certainly nothing Lombardian, something that was going to make Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations.
But on his playground, he was the exact opposite. Barnum. He found a sucker in every play he drew up. He werewolfed into Mr. Excitement. He directed Hitchcock football. Thrilling. Air Coryell. Mach speed. Bombs away. Always pushing. No quarter. He created offensive things no one had seen. He scared the living hell out of of people.and with the Cardinals, but at San Diego State, where he became the father of the modern forward pass.
Don was the first modern day coach to win 100 games as a college and NFL coach, but that cut the voters’ ice like a paper straw. I spent years in that room, and the problem always was that he not only failed to win a Super Bowl, but didn’t get to one. Then, when he came here, he teamed up with Gibbs and genius Ernie Zampese, and the offense blew up into something the game never had seen. It was magic. And everyone — including geniuses such as Bill Walsh and the new guns — stole from it.
I first met Don in 1968, when I covered football for the Daily Aztec. We were reacquainted when I got The NFL Team That Used To Be Here beat in 1982.
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