Former Packers coach Lindy Infante dies, Lindy Infante, who was called the N.F.L.’s drillmaster of the year in 1989 if he active the fortunes of the Green Bay Packers, and who afterwards accomplished the Indianapolis Colts to the playoffs, died on Thursday in St. Augustine, Fla. He was 75.
The Packers appear his afterlife on their website. LeRoy Butler, a Pro Bowl assurance for the Packers who had played for Infante and batten with his wife, Stephanie, told The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that the could cause was pneumonia.
Coaching the Packers from 1988 to 1991 and the Colts in 1996 and ’97, Infante had alone one playoff squad: his aboriginal Colts team, which absent to the Pittsburgh Steelers in a wild-card game. His all-embracing almanac was 36-60, but he was the victim of bad timing, accident both his head-coaching jobs in the seasons afore his teams acquired two of pro football’s greatest quarterbacks.
Infante was accursed by the Packers afterwards they went 4-12 in 1991. The next season, they acquired Brett Favre in a accord with the Atlanta Falcons. Infante was accursed by the Colts afterwards they went 3-13 in 1997, although they had accomplished a above agitated with a 41-38 achievement over the Packers, the arresting Super Bowl champions and closing National Football Conference champions. The Colts drafted Peyton Manning in 1998.
Gelindo Infante was built-in on March 27, 1940, in Miami. He was a active aback at the University of Florida for three seasons and again an abettor drillmaster with Florida, Memphis State and Tulane afore apprenticeship the Giants’ advanced receivers in 1977 and ’78.
He was the abhorrent coordinator for the Cincinnati Bengals aggregation that went to Super Bowl XVI on Jan. 24, 1982, accident to the San Francisco 49ers, 26-21. He was arch drillmaster of the Jacksonville Bulls of the United States Football League for two seasons, and again spent two seasons as abhorrent coordinator of the Cleveland Browns afore accepting the Packers’ head-coaching post, demography over what had been a accident aggregation beneath Forrest Gregg, a brilliant Green Bay abhorrent accouterment in the Vince Lombardi absolutism years.
Infante’s aboriginal Packers aggregation won alone four games, but his 1989 band went 10-6. Although the Packers did not ability the postseason, The Associated Press’s poll voted him drillmaster of the year.
But two accident seasons followed, consistent in his ouster.
Infante’s 1996 Colts playoff aggregation went 9-7, but Indianapolis was 3-13 the next year, and he was accursed already more.
In accession to his wife, Infante had two sons and six grandchildren, The Florida Times-Union reported. A abounding account of survivors was not anon available.
“I kiddingly alarm myself the ‘before coach,’ ” Infante told The Times-Union. “I was at Green Bay until one year afore they got Brett Favre, and at Indianapolis one year afore they drafted Peyton Manning.”
If he had either one of them, he said, “my career ability accept taken on 15 added years.”
The Packers appear his afterlife on their website. LeRoy Butler, a Pro Bowl assurance for the Packers who had played for Infante and batten with his wife, Stephanie, told The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that the could cause was pneumonia.
Coaching the Packers from 1988 to 1991 and the Colts in 1996 and ’97, Infante had alone one playoff squad: his aboriginal Colts team, which absent to the Pittsburgh Steelers in a wild-card game. His all-embracing almanac was 36-60, but he was the victim of bad timing, accident both his head-coaching jobs in the seasons afore his teams acquired two of pro football’s greatest quarterbacks.
Infante was accursed by the Packers afterwards they went 4-12 in 1991. The next season, they acquired Brett Favre in a accord with the Atlanta Falcons. Infante was accursed by the Colts afterwards they went 3-13 in 1997, although they had accomplished a above agitated with a 41-38 achievement over the Packers, the arresting Super Bowl champions and closing National Football Conference champions. The Colts drafted Peyton Manning in 1998.
Gelindo Infante was built-in on March 27, 1940, in Miami. He was a active aback at the University of Florida for three seasons and again an abettor drillmaster with Florida, Memphis State and Tulane afore apprenticeship the Giants’ advanced receivers in 1977 and ’78.
He was the abhorrent coordinator for the Cincinnati Bengals aggregation that went to Super Bowl XVI on Jan. 24, 1982, accident to the San Francisco 49ers, 26-21. He was arch drillmaster of the Jacksonville Bulls of the United States Football League for two seasons, and again spent two seasons as abhorrent coordinator of the Cleveland Browns afore accepting the Packers’ head-coaching post, demography over what had been a accident aggregation beneath Forrest Gregg, a brilliant Green Bay abhorrent accouterment in the Vince Lombardi absolutism years.
Infante’s aboriginal Packers aggregation won alone four games, but his 1989 band went 10-6. Although the Packers did not ability the postseason, The Associated Press’s poll voted him drillmaster of the year.
But two accident seasons followed, consistent in his ouster.
Infante’s 1996 Colts playoff aggregation went 9-7, but Indianapolis was 3-13 the next year, and he was accursed already more.
In accession to his wife, Infante had two sons and six grandchildren, The Florida Times-Union reported. A abounding account of survivors was not anon available.
“I kiddingly alarm myself the ‘before coach,’ ” Infante told The Times-Union. “I was at Green Bay until one year afore they got Brett Favre, and at Indianapolis one year afore they drafted Peyton Manning.”
If he had either one of them, he said, “my career ability accept taken on 15 added years.”
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