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Bill Walsh Dies At Age 75
Published 7/30/2007 by Scott at Bucstats.com weblog

Bill Walsh: R.I.P. Bill Walsh
Published 7/30/2007 by Leitch at Deadspin
... has died. He was 75 years old, which is older than we realized; something about the guy always seemed young to us. ...

Bill Walsh 1931-2007
Published 7/31/2007 by Old No. 7 at Predominantly Orange | A Blog For Denver Broncos Fans
There are probably many younger fans out there that look at the coaching career of Bill Walsh the way I look at those of Vince Lombardi , Chuck Knoll or John Madden . You can look at the stats or the film of a old player or a team and get a sense of how good they might have been, but you can t really sense the greatness of a coach just by looking at his record or stack of Super Bowls. Bill Walsh reinvented the game of football. At a time when teams subscribed to either a three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust running game or a vertical passing attack, Walsh created a hybrid that has become the way football is played today. Call it the West Coast or whatever, but the game is manifested with much more athleticism and creativity today, and that s all due to the football genius of Walsh. As Bronco fans, almost everything we see our team do is directly attributable to what Walsh created and installed for the 49ers. The practice regimen, the ...