Sam Wyche, the former quarterback and coach, pa sed away Tuesday after a brief battle with recurring melanoma at the age of 74, the team announced ."Sam was a wonderful guy. We got to know him as both a player and a coach," Bengals president Mike Brown said. "As our coach, he had great succe s and took us to the .
Janne Kuokkanen Women Jersey He was friends with everyone here, both during his tenure as head coach and afterwards. We not only liked him, we admired him as a man. He had a great generosity of spirit and lived his life trying to help others. We expre s our condolences to Jane and his children Zak and Kerry."Wyche spent three seasons playing in Cincinnati before heading to the , then and , retiring after the 1976 season. After winning a Super Bowl as an a sistant on the ' coaching staff, Wyche returned to the Bengals in
Jeff Skinner Kids Jersey 1984 and led them to their second Super Bowl appearance at the end of the 1988 season.Wyche's coaching career also included four years as the ' head coach (1992-95), a two-year stint as the quarterbacks coach (2004-05) and two different tenures at Pickens High School in South Carolina, most recently serving as the school's offensive coordinator. But Wyche is mostly remembered for his eight seasons as Bengals coach that saw him lead the team to 64 wins and an AFC championship in 1988. That season, Cincinnati won a franchise-record 12 regular-season games before defeating Seattle and Buffalo en route to an appearance in Super Bowl XXIII.While decidedly underdogs, Wyche's Bengals held a 16-13 late in Super Bowl XXIII before Joe Montana, Wyche's quarterback during his time in San Francisco earlier in the decade, engineered a 92-yard drive that culminated with his 10-yard pa s to John Taylor with 39 seconds remaining.Beyond his coaching accomplishments, Wyche is also remembered for his colorful personality in an age where coaches
Fredrik Claesson Kids Jersey were just beginning to show emotion. He was also one of the first coaches to agreed to be "mic'd up by Films" during a Super Bowl, with helping add to the lore of one of the greatest Super Bowls of all-time.The following rant Wyche made during a Bengals home game became an instant cla sic. I will always remember Sam Wyche chastising Bengals fans during a game one time in 1989: Will the next person that sees anybody throw anything onto this field, point 'em out, and get 'em out of here! You don't live in Cleveland, you live in Cincinnati! BlitzburghUSAVideos (@sdextrasmedia) Wyche also helped integrate the no-huddle offense into the NFL with the succe s he and quarterback Boomer Esiason enjoyed during the 1988
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