Don Shula once broke his famous jaw in a game, when he was a cornerback for the Baltimore Colts, and didn’t realize it until he went out to dinner that night and couldn’t chew the ground beef. He was notoriously demanding as a coach, too, requiring his Dolphins teams to practice four times a day without water. In his final years, his presence diminished with his health, but his legacy became even stronger.
Monday morning, the Dolphins announced that the legendary coach, the NFL’s winningest, had died peacefully at home at age 90.
Shula was slower, weaker, in the last years of his life.