Dolphins, NFL honor Shula in celebration of his life

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell stood on a stage and spent a few minutes running down a partial list of Don Shula’s accomplishments: two Super Bowl wins, more wins than any coach in NFL history and the only perfect season the league has ever seen.

And then Goodell, in one sentence, summed up Shula’s football life.

“He changed the game, and made it better in every way,” Goodell said.

Almost a year and a half after Shula died, the Dolphins finally held a public celebration of his life on Oct. 2, an event that couldn’t be held last year because of the pandemic. It was fitting that Miami chose this weekend for its Shula celebration and alumni reunion: The Dolphins on Sunday play host to the Indianapolis Colts, the other NFL team that Shula coached in his Hall of Fame career.

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