Don Shula lived a football life and there are not many who truly know about what he did to shape the NFL from his earliest days to his late in life years. For half a century, Don Shula gave himself to a game that he loved and we only know pieces of it.
Don Shula’s life began in a small northern Ohio community on the shores of Lake Erie. He would graduate high-school as World War II came to an end and by chance would attend John Carroll University in Ohio. He turned a one-year scholarship into a full scholarship as a halfback.