Legendary NFL coach Bill Walsh dead at 75 (Newsday)
Legendary NFL coach Bill Walsh dead at 75 (Newsday)
His ideas once were considered too gimmicky and too risky, especially in a league where smashmouth football was the norm. But Bill Walsh’s West Coast offense created a dynasty with his 49ers of the 1980’s and eventually spread in some form to nearly every NFL team.
Bill Walsh ‘genius’ changed face of football (USA Today)
Bill Walsh’s passing will bring no comparisons to Vince Lombardi, Mike Ditka, George Halas or any of the other NFL coaching greats who thrived on peeling locker room paint with pure volume. No, we’ll remember Walsh in the same way we recall teachers who gave us a love for literature, history or art.
NFL Greats Shake Off the Rust in All-Pro Football 2K8 (The Village Voice)
NFL greats shake off the rust in All-Pro Football 2K8 (By Gary Hodges)
Dr. Z: Walsh’s take on life in the NFL (Sports Illustrated)
Bill Walsh and I were having dinner one night, and some coach had just been fired. I forget who it was. Walsh took a deep breath and, almost in a stream of consciousness, issued a description of life in the NFL that has stayed with me for many years. I wrote it down, as accurately as I could. I used it in my book, The New Thinking Man’s Guide to Pro Football:
Former 49ers Coach, an NFL Innovator, Dies at 75 (Washington Post)
Bill Walsh, the professorial coach who led the San Francisco 49ers to three Super Bowl titles in the 1980s and molded the playing style of pro football as it neared the turn of the century, died yesterday at his Bay Area home after a three-year battle with leukemia.
American football: Influential NFL coach Walsh dies (The New Zealand Herald)
SAN FRANCISCO - Former San Francisco 49ers head coach Bill Walsh, who led the National Football League (NFL) franchise to three Super Bowl victories in the 1980s, died on Tuesday, the team announced.
Opinion: Walsh father of NFL s modern offense (MSNBC)
Opinion: Like other innovators at other times in NFL history, Bill Walsh adapted, created, copied, and invented. Because he succeeded so spectacularly, his legacy and influence puts him in the company of football icons George Halas, Paul Brown and Vince Lombardi.