Bill Tobin, a longtime NFL executive who helped construct the Chicago Bears’ famed 1985 championship team and later built a playoff team as the Indianapolis Colts’ general manager, has died. He was 83. The Cincinnati Bengals announced that Tobin had died, and the Bears also confirmed his death.
CHICAGO — Bill Tobin, a longtime NFL executive who helped construct the Chicago Bears ’ famed 1985 championship team and later built a playoff team as the Indianapolis Colts ’ general manager, has died. He was 83.
“He was a true NFL success story,” Bengals owner Mike Brown said in a statement. “He was a good person and I considered him a good friend. With Bill, I respected everything he said. I just took it as a given. He had an eye for players and what they would develop into. If he said the guy was a good player, then he was a good player; that’s all I would need to know. We will miss him.”
The Bears won six division titles and made the playoffs nine times in Tobin’s 18 seasons. Chicago drafted franchise icon Walter Payton with the No. 4 overall pick in 1975 along with fellow Hall of Famers Dan Hampton in 1979, Mike Singletary in 1981 and Jimbo Covert and Richard Dent in 1983. Those players helped form the nucleus of the 1985 team that went 15-1 and danced all the way to the franchise’s lone Super Bowl championship.
Indianapolis made the playoffs in two of Tobin’s three years, with the 1995 team advancing to the AFC championship game. The Colts drafted a pair of Hall of Famers in that period, taking Marshall Faulk in 1994 and Marvin Harrison in 1996.
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