Former Broncos head coach Dan Reeves dies [View all]
Reeves led John Elway's Broncos to three Super Bowl appearances following the 1986, '87 and '89 seasons. He also threw a TD pass for the Cowboys in famed Ice Bowl.
DENVER — Dan Reeves, the head coach who led the Broncos to three Super Bowls in 1986, ‘87 and ‘89, passed away soon after the midnight New Year hour Saturday.
Pam, his wife of 56 years, and other family members were by his side. Reeves, who had been battling dementia in recent years, would have turned 78 on January 19.
“He was a great coach, I thought,’’ Joe DeCamillis, special teams coordinator for the Los Angeles Rams and formerly of the Broncos, said about his father-in-law. “He got the most out of his players. And he cared about his players. He helped out so many of his players.
“But as good as he was as a coach, he was an even better father, grandfather and husband. He always wanted to be around when our kids had something going on. One of the things he always said: ‘You can really tell the character of a person by how he treats people who can’t help him.’ That’s how he lived his life. He treated the clean-up people the same way he did Mr. Bowlen.”
After a solid eight-year playing career as a halfback with the Dallas Cowboys from 1965-72, Reeves became an assistant coach to Tom Landry in Dallas before new Broncos owner Edgar Kaiser hired him to become head coach in 1981. Kaiser sold the franchise to Pat Bowlen in 1984, but Reeves stayed as head coach and lasted 12 years, posting a 110-73-1 record with the three Super Bowl appearances.
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