Miami Dolphins Hall of Fame head coach Don Shula watches the game slip away during Super Bowl XIX, a 38-16 loss to the San Francisco 49ers on January 20, 1985, at Stanford Stadium in Stanford, California. (Photo by Sylvia Allen/Getty Images)
There was no parade or public memorial. There was no filling of a church or any other ceremony. Don Shula was laid to rest with close family instead.
Last Friday, Don Shula joined his first wife, Dorothy. It was a quiet service with close family only invited to attend due to the current health crisis. For all of the joy that Don Shula brought the world, for all the lives he touched, it was, in a way fitting, that only his family were by his side as they laid him to rest.