Marty Schottenheimer (1943-2021)
Marty Schottenheimer (1943-2021)
Marty Schottenheimer
Original Name Martin Edward Schottenheimer
Birth 23 Sep 1943
Canonsburg, Washington County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death 8 Feb 2021 (aged 77)
Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA
Burial Details Unknown
American Football Player and Coach
He was primarily known for serving as a head coach for four different National Football League teams from 1984 to 2006. He also played the linebacker position for both the American and National Football League’s Buffalo Bills and Boston Patriots from 1965 to 1970.
He played football collegiately at the University of Pittsburgh before being selected by both the NFL’s Baltimore Colts and the AFL’s Buffalo Bills in their respective 1965 league drafts. After signing with the Bills, he went on to play for them for the next four years before being traded to the Boston Patriots in 1969. While with the Bills, he was a part of their 1965 AFL Championship team and also played in the 1965 AFL All-Star Game.
He played for the Patriots for the next two seasons before being traded to the Pittsburgh Steelers in July of 1971. The Steelers then traded him to the Baltimore Colts before the start of the 1971 season, but he retired instead. After retiring as a player, he went first into the insurance industry before going into coaching.
He served as an assistant coach in both the World Football League and the National Football League before being named as the head coach of the Cleveland Browns during the 1984 season. He remained at the helm of the Browns for the next four and half years before leaving the team after the 1988 season. During his tenure with the Browns, the team made four appearances in playoff games and played in two AFC Championship games.
He also was the UPI AFC Coach of the Year in 1986. In 1989, he became the head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs and served in this position until resigning after the 1998 season. As the head man of the Chiefs, he recorded a 101–58–1 regular season record (.634) and had three division titles, seven playoff appearances, and a trip to the AFC Championship game in 1993, losing to the Buffalo Bills.
After working with ESPN as a football analyst from 1999 to 2000, he became the head coach of the Washington Redskins for the 2001 season. He spent one year in the nation’s capital before being fired.
In 2002, he became the head coach of the San Diego Chargers and led the team for the next five years before he was fired because of disagreements with general manager A.J. Smith. He went on to work again for ESPN and his last head coaching assignment was with the Virginia Destroyers of the United Football League in 2011.
That same year, he was first diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and battled it until succumbing to the dreadful disease almost ten years later.
Marty Schottenheimer (1943-2021)
Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh (1921-2021)
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