Dave Hyde had two articles in yesterday’s Sun-Sentinel about Don Shula, and each contained an interesting story. The first was about the time Larry Csonka, before a game in Oakland, found the Raiders playbook in the visiting team’s locker room and Shula immediately threw it in the trash. To have looked at it, the coach explained, would have been cheating.
The second story was more personal. After Shula’s wife died, Hyde wrote a column about her. The next time they met, Shula thanked him for the column and then, as if Hyde were a lineman who had just given a key block, he tapped him on the butt and said “Good job.”
