Mike Shanahan

Head Coach/Executive VP Of Football Operations, Denver Broncos

Career Highlights:  Mike Shanahan completed his 25th season in the NFL coaching ranks, his 13th season as head coach of the Denver Broncos… He led the Broncos to back-to-back victories in the Super Bowl in 1998 and 1999, including the thrilling 31-24 victory over the favored Green Bay Packers in 1998 …During his NFL career, Shanahan has been a part of teams that have played in 10 AFC or NFC Championship games, in addition to his six Super Bowl appearances (five with Denver, one with San Francisco)…Shanahan joined the exclusive club of head coaches to post 100 wins in the first 10 seasons with one club… He is the first coach in history to win two Super Bowl titles in his first four years coaching a team…Shanahan posted the most wins in pro football history in a two-year period (33 in 1997-98) and in a three-year period (46 in 1996-98)…He won the most postseason games in history over a two-year period (seven, 1997-98) and also won 18 straight games over 1997-98 to tie the all-time NFL record for consecutive wins…Shanahan went to Denver in 1995 from San Francisco, where he served as offensive coordinator and helped lead the 49ers to victory in Super Bowl XXIX…He is the only coach to have directed two different teams to a 500-point season (the 1998 Broncos scored 501 points, and Shanahan’s 1994 San Francisco offense scored 505)…He also held early coaching stints at Florida, Minnesota, Eastern Illinois, Northern Arizona and Oklahoma… Shanahan attended Eastern Illinois University, where he was quarterback until he lost a kidney in the spring game of his junior year, which began his coaching career a year earlier than expected…He is best known and recognized for his superb organizational skills, as well as his imaginative offense…He co-authored a motivational book during the 1999 off-season – “Think Like a Champion: Building Success One Victory At a Time.”

Updated: May, 2008
Courtesy NBC