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Marty Schottenheimer, NFL coach with 200 wins, dies at 77
FILE - Virginia Destroyers head coach Marty Schottenheimer speaks after defeating the Las Vegas Locomotives to win the United Football League Championship in Virginia Beach, Va., in this Oct. 21, 2011, file photo. Marty Schottenheimer, who won 200 regular-season games with four NFL teams thanks to his “Martyball” brand of smash-mouth football but regularly fell short in the playoffs, has died. He was 77. Schottenheimer died Monday night, Feb. 8, 2021, at a hospice in Charlotte,. L. Todd Spencer
FILE - In this Jan. 4, 2001, file photo, Washington Redskin s new head coach Marty Schottenheimer speaks at a news conference at Redskins Park in Ashburn, Va. Marty Schottenheimer, who won 200 regular-season games with four NFL teams thanks to his “Martyball” brand of smash-mouth football but regularly fell short in the playoffs, has died. He was 77. Schottenheimer died Monday night, Feb. 8, 2021, at a hospice in Charlotte, N
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San Diego Chargers head coach Marty Schottenheimer answers a question at a news conference in San Diego, in this Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2007, file photo. (L. Todd Spencer/The Virginian-Pilot via AP)
SAN DIEGO, CA Former San Diego Chargers head coach Marty Schottenheimer has died. He was 77.
Schottenheimer died Monday in Charlotte, North Carolina, his family said through former Kansas City Chiefs publicist Bob Moore. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer s disease in 2014 and moved to a hospice on Jan. 30. Marty was a tremendous leader of men and a man of great principle the love and admiration his former players have for him to this day speak volumes, Chargers owner and chairman of the board Dean Spanos said in a statement. You couldn t outwork him. You couldn t out-prepare him. And you certainly always knew exactly where you stood with him. I am grateful that he was our head coach for five seasons, and I am even more fortunate to have