When you are the greatest winner in the history of the National Football League, you live forever.
Don Shula may have passed from this Earth on Monday at the age of 90, but the times he stood on an NFL sideline and coached his team to victory — there were 347 of those, cumulatively — they will all live on in the record book.
Every time old-timers get together and argue about the best coach they’ve ever seen, Shula will be remembered.
When young football fans want to make the case for the supremacy of this year’s hot new offensive mind or the brilliance of the latest new defensive innovator, they’ll learn just how high those bars are set, thanks to Shula.