St. Elmo’s has the shrimp-cocktail factor to this day, and Prime 47 probably has overtaken all other downtown Indianapolis restaurants as the hub of activity during NFL scouting combine week.
But there was a time and place where Shula’s Steak House on the second floor of the Westin Hotel was, starting sometime in the late 1990s or early 2000s, one of the see-and-be-seen centers for activity during one of the few weeks when most of the NFL’s heaviest lifters are in one place at one time.
Don Shula’s death on Monday brought remembrances of and tributes to his incredible span as an NFL head coach, and even as a player in the 1950s.