Late Chiefs Coach Marty Schottenheimer Remembered by Cowboys Coach, Son

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Late Chiefs head coach Marty Schottenheimer was remembered by his son and Cowboys head coach Brian Schottenheimer on June 12.

Late Kansas City Chiefs head coach Marty Schottenheiemer’s name will likely come up more often this season as his son, Brian Schottenheimer, leads the Dallas Cowboys for the first time.

Brian Schottenheimer remembered his father and the longtime coaching legend on June 12 ahead of Father’s Day. Marty Schottenheimer coached the Chiefs from 1989 to 1998 amid his three-decade career in the league.

“I miss him,” Brian Schottenheimer told reporters on June 12. “I would tell him that I used all the life lessons that he taught me, not just about football, but about life and being a good man and a good husband and a good father, and that I think I’m doing OK for myself. But I know he’s proud; I miss him like crazy.”

Brian Schottenheimer’s second NFL job came with the Chiefs in 1998 when he worked with his father. Brian Schottenheimer served as an assistant that year after a season with the then-St. Louis Rams in the same role during 1997.

They coached together again with the then-Washington Redskins in 2001 followed by the then-San Diego Chargers between 2001 and 2005. Marty Schottenheimer called it a career in the NFL after the Chargers fired him following the 2006 season. He had a brief comeback with coaching in 2011 when he worked with the Virginia Destroyers of the UFL.

Marty Schottenheimer passed away in 2021.

Marty Schottenheimer Had Successful Run With Chiefs

GettyLate Chiefs head coach Marty Schottenheimer won 101 games with the team between 1989 and 1998.

Marty Schottenheimer never had a losing season with the Chiefs amid a 101-58-1 record in 10 years.

That made up more than half of his 200 career wins between his other stints with the Cleveland Browns, Chargers, and then-Redskins. Schottenheimer took the Chiefs to the AFC Championship Game in 1993, but his team lost to the Buffalo Bills in the middle of the Bills’ dominant 1990s run.

He made it that far only one other time when the Browns lost to the Denver Broncos in the 1986 AFC Championship Game. Overall, Schottenheimer had a 5-13 playoff record and never reached a Super Bowl.

During his time in Kansas City, Schottenheimer worked with numerous greats such as quarterback Joe Montana, running back Marcus Allen, late linebacker Derrick Thomas, and defensive lineman Neil Smith.

Brian Schottenheimer Offers Thoughts on Marty Schottenheimer’s Legacy

Marty Schottenheimer developed a lengthy coaching tree in his time with the Chiefs and around the NFL, and it’s those connections and the players he developed that Brian Schottenheimer sees as his father’s success.

“Legacy to me, you know I think it starts with people,” Brian Schottenheimer explained. “To this day I go out on the field for a game, and I will have two or three different individuals come up to me and say, ‘Excuse me, Coach, you have a second?’ And I know exactly where they’re going, and I of course drop what I’m doing because I want to hear it.”

“And they say, ‘Your father changed my life,’ and it’s former players. And so, he never won a Super Bowl, he won over 200 games in the NFL, but I would put his legacy up against anybody who’s ever coached in the National Football League,” Schottenheimer concluded.

Matthew Davis covers the NFL, WNBA and college sports for Heavy.com. As a contributing writer to the StarTribune, he has also covered Minnesota prep sports since 2016. More about Matthew Davis