Bobby Beathard, a Hall of Fame general manager helped construct Super Bowl winners for the Miami Dolphins and Washington Commanders, died Monday. He was 86 years old.
After nearly a decade as a scout for the Chiefs and Atlanta Falcons, Beathard joined the Dolphins as director of player personnel in the fortuitous year of 1972. With head coach Don Shula also running the team as general manager, Beathard spent his first-year as a high-level executive helping call the shots for the NFL's only undefeated Super Bowl champion.
Three years into his D.C. tenure, the Commanders fired head coach Jack Pardee. Beathard, tasked with finding his successor, decided to hire Chargers offensive coordinator Joe Gibbs, but needed a three-and-a-half-hour interview to convince Washington owner Jack Kent Cooke the relatively obscure assistant was the man for the job."Who in the hell is Joe Gibbs?" Beathard recalled Cooke asking him, during an NBC interview.
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