Harland Svare, general manager and head coach for the San Diego Chargers during the turbulent early 1970s, has died. Svare’s daughter, Mia Anderson, said Friday her father passed away April 4 at a nursing home in Steamboat Springs, Colo.
Cause of death was listed as respiratory arrest. He was 89.
“My father was an amazing man,” said Anderson, who was adopted at birth by Svare and was an only child. “He always was my rock, always stood beside me in everything in life. That first night he fell in love with me and the feelings were mutual.