Dan Reeves, a former Dallas Cowboys halfback who, as a coach, guided groups to 4 Super Bowls (though he misplaced all of them), died on Saturday at his dwelling in Atlanta. He was 77.
The trigger was problems of dementia, in response to a household assertion.
Reeves performed and coached with the Dallas Cowboys throughout a stellar interval after they received two Super Bowls, one when he was a participant and one when he was an offense coordinator, working for Coach Tom Landry. After a number of seasons as an assistant to Landry, he was employed because the Broncos’ head coach in 1981, changing Red Miller.
Over 12 seasons in Denver, his groups had a file of 110-73-1 and had been among the many greatest within the American Football Conference. Led by quarterback John Elway, they misplaced the Super Bowl in 1987, 1988 and 1990 by vast margins to the New York Giants, Washington Redskins and San Francisco 49ers.
Reeves typically clashed with Elway over the Broncos’ offensive scheme and disagreed with the group’s proprietor, Pat Bowlen, over management of the group.
Following an 8-Eight season in 1992, Bowlen fired Reeves.
“When you own a football team,” Reeves stated afterward. “You should be able to run the ball club the way you would like to.” Bowlen stated he may have renewed Reeves’s contract, however that inside a yr “we both would have been miserable and at each other’s throat.”
Reeves was employed in early 1993 by the Giants, who had fired Ray Handley after a 6-10 season.
“When you’ve gone and lost three Super Bowls and that’s what people will remember the most about you, that’s what drives you,” Reeves stated at the information convention the place he was launched.
An entire obituary will seem shortly.
