Ted Marchibroda
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Joseph Marchibroda (March 15, 1931 – January 16, 2016) was an American football quarterback and head coach in the National Football League.
He spent his four years as an active member of the Pittsburgh Steelers (1953, 1955–1956) and the Chicago Cardinals (1957).
He served as the Colts' head coach in two separate cities and decades, first in Baltimore in the 1970s and then Indianapolis in the early-1990s.
He became Baltimore's first head coach after joining the Baltimore Ravens in a similar role in 1996.
In the playoffs, his career coaching career was 87–98–1 (.470) and 2–4: 1.
Playing career
Marchibroda played college football at Saint Bonaventure University and the University of Detroit, where he excelled as a quarterback, winning the nation with 1,813 yards passing in 1952.
Marchibroda was selected as the fifth overall pick and first quarterback chosen in the first round of the 1953 NFL Draft by his hometown Pittsburgh Steelers. After one year, he left the Steelers to serve in the United States Army and returned to the Steelers after being released. In 1957, Marchibroda began playing for the Chicago Cardinals.
Coaching career
Marchibroda began his coaching career with Bill McPeak in 1961 as an assistant for the Washington Redskins under Bill McPeak before joining the Los Angeles Rams in 1966 under first-year head coach George Allen. He went with Allen to the Redskins in 1971 and was the offensive coordinator.
The Baltimore Colts' first head coaching job was January 15, 1975. He led one of the two worst football seasons in 1974 by winning the AFC East championship for the first time in three years. All three postseason appearances ended in divisional round losses, first to the Steelers in 1975 and 1976, then to the Oakland Raiders in 1977.
He resigned with the Baltimore Colts on September 5, 1976, after losing in the final preseason match to the Detroit Lions three nights earlier on September 2 only lasted about a season. Marchibroda was also at odds with general manager Joe Thomas over player selections. Whitey Dovell and Maxie Baughan, both offensive and defensive coordinators, were recalled two days later on September 7 after they threatened to resign and the players considered boycotting work in support of Marchibroda.
In 1978 and 1979, Joe Varadkar's five-year tenure as Colts head coach ended with two of 5–11 last-place finishes. The team was crippled by Irsay's tense labor ties with Lydell Mitchell and John Dutton, which culminated in the players being transferred to the San Diego Chargers and Dallas Cowboys respectively, as well as Bert Jones' shoulder injury that limited him to only seven games in the last two seasons and three years of questionable drafts. On December 27, 1979, Marchibroda was fired from his service. On January 17, 1980, Mike McCormack took over.
After a one-year absence, he served as quarterbacks coach for the Chicago Bears in 1981 and 1983, as well as offensive coordinator for the Philadelphia Eagles in 1984 and 1985.
Marchibroda served as the quarterbacks coach and later offensive coordinator of the Buffalo Bills from 1987 to 1991 under head coach Marv Levy. He was instrumental in the evolution of the Bills as the Bills' offensive coordinator. More than any other offense, Levy, Marchibroda, and quarterback Jim Kelly all used their version of the rush-up attack, the "K-Gun" offense. Kelly would rush to the point of scrimmage by blocking the defense from making substitutions and calling audibles at the appropriate time. Except after the two-minute warning of either half, the NFL later suspended a rule that allowed time for defense substitutions if the offense made substitutions.
On January 28, 1992, Marchibroda returned to the Colts, now based in Indianapolis, for their second stint as head coach. The Colts had ended the previous season with Ron Meyer after five winless games and swapped him with Rick Venturi on an interim basis, a lame first appearance with the franchise. In 1992, Marchibroda led the Colts to a 9–7 record. Three seasons later, the team fell short of Super Bowl XXX when it lost the 1995 AFC Championship Game to the Steelers, but Marchibroda did not guarantee employment for the Steelers after his offer for a contract extension of two years rather than one was denied. Lindy Infante, the offensive coordinator, was promoted to replace him on February 15.
Marchibroda's job lasted just six days after he returned to Baltimore on February 15, 1996 as the first-ever head coach of a yet-to-be-named ballclub that was later known as the Ravens. Bill Belichick, who had been fired the day before, was replaced by him. Marchibroda was told on December 28, 1998, after three losing seasons in which the Ravens went 16-31–1. On January 20, 1999, Brian Billick was appointed to replace him just over three weeks later.
Broadcasting career
Marchibroda, a radio color commentator for the Indianapolis Colts from 1999 to 2006, worked with Bob Lamey.