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Bobby Beathard , the architect of four Super Bowl-winning teams with two different organizations during his lengthy tenure in football, has died. He was 86.
A spokesperson for the Washington Commanders said Beathard's family told the team he died Monday at his home in Franklin, Tennessee, less than a week after his 86th birthday. A cause of death was not immediately available.
Beathard was director of player personnel for two of the NFL championships by Miami in the 1970s and served as general manager for two more by Washington in the ´80s. He also scouted for Kansas City when the Chiefs won the American Football League title and made Super Bowl I following the 1966 season and was GM with San Diego when the Chargers got there in the mid-1990s.
Hall of Fame executive Bobby Beathard died at the age of 86 less than a week after his birthday
Part of seven teams that made the Super Bowl during his lengthy front office career, Beathard was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2018. Washington added him to the organization's Ring of Honor in 2016.
"Bobby not only built winning teams throughout his career, but he also built winning cultures that lasted beyond his years with an organization," Pro Football Hall of Fame president Jim Porter said in a statement. "He combined an eye for talent with a special gift for working with other people. The results speak for themselves."
Beathard also scouted for the Atlanta Falcons, but is most known for his roles with Don Shula's Dolphins that won the Super Bowl back-to-back and then hiring coach Joe Gibbs and drafting Darrell Green, Art Monk and others during his time in Washington.
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