Chargers' Hall of Fame executive died Monday at age 86, two days before Super Bowl champion QB retired
If you’re among the hundreds of thousands of San Diegans who rode the Super Bowl wave with the 1994 Chargers, raise a protein shake in honor of Bobby Beathard, the body-surfing football savant and fitness buff who drafted Junior Seau, hired Bobby Ross and weathered working for Alex Spanos.
As the Chargers’ general manager, Beathard stuck to his scouting roots, traveling the country to attend collegiate practices and games but almost always attending Chargers games — even if it meant catching a red-eye to ensure he’d board the team’s plane out of San Diego. When Dean Spanos, the team owner’s son, agreed to take over day to day operations as team president in 1994, allowing the GM to maintain his scouting lifestyle, Beathard chose to stick around. The Chargers responded by earning the only Super Bowl berth in franchise history, two years after their third season under Beathard produced the franchise’s first division title since 1981.
Yet the Hall of Fame talent man’s bigger regret of his Chargers tenure may have been not drafting Tom Brady, the Canton-bound quarterback who retired Wednesday. After Beathard passed once on Brady, the Patriots pounced. Bill Belichick took the quarterback with the 199Bobby Beathard takes a moment to reflect shortly after resigning as the Chargers’ general manager in 2000.
Giving Riley an acute case of the what-ifs, Brady roasted the coach’s 2001 Chargers for 364 yards and three touchdowns. He was making his third career start. The turnover-free performance foretold that veteran Drew Bledsoe, who’d been KO’d four weeks earlier by a Jets linebacker, would not be getting his job back.His full-time successor, John Butler, rivaled the hot streak of Beathard’s early tenure with the Chargers. He drafted LaDainian Tomlinson and Drew Brees and hired Marty Schottenheimer.
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