Former NFL coach Dennis Green died Friday at age 67, the league confirmed. According to his family, Green experienced complications from cardiac arrest; his family was by his side when he died.
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Green, who was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was named head coach of the Minnesota Vikings on January 19th, 1992. The team didn’t make a playoff appearance under Green.
In his final season, 2006, the Cardinals won their opener and then lost eight in a row to fall out of the playoff hunt.
His death was announced by his family on the website of the Cardinals with a statement that said his family was at his bedside and he had fought hard.
In a written statement, NFL executive vice president of football operations, Troy Vincent said: “We are saddened to hear the news of Dennis Green’s passing”.
Dennis Green, a longtime National Football League head coach, has died at age 67. “We express our deepest sympathy to his family and friends”. His career record finished at 113-94. In between, he was the offensive coordinator at Stanford in 1980 and spent five years as the head coach at Northwestern from 1981-85.
Dennis Green was a father figure, mentor and coach to football players for the majority of his life.
“These other coaches have a lot to live up to, hopefully they’ll get back to that level of success, the new stadium, they’ve got a new group of core players coming in that hopefully can get us back to that level of competition”, said Boyer. In 1979, Green was tagged along Stanford’s head coach Bill Walsh, who assigned him as N.F. L. special teams coach.
Green’s famous rant following a game while he was head coach in Arizona remains a classic 11 years later. “He helped pave the way for minority coaches and recently served as a key advisor on the NFL’s Career Development Advisory Panel”.
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Green went 16-32 in three seasons with the Arizona Cardinals.
The 1998-99 team went 15-1 and would have gone to the Super Bowl if not for Gary Anderson missing a 39-yard field goal late in the game that would have put the Vikings up 10.
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Green graduated with a degree in finance where he also played football for three seasons for Iowa.
