What painful news; a  great Miami Dolphins player has died.

November 4, 2023 admin Other Clubs 0

Former Miami Dolphins great Tim Foley dies

Tim Foley, a cornerback on the Miami Dolphins’ No-Name Defense in the 1972 Perfect Season, died last weekend after a long illness. He was 75.

Foley played all 11 NFL seasons with the Dolphins and, in 1978, was the franchise’s first cornerback selected to the Pro Bowl.

“Tim was a great teammate and a solid person,’’ said Dick Anderson, a safety on that defense who played for years alongside Foley.

Foley considered being drafted in the third round by the Dolphins in 1970 a perfect marriage of time and place. He didn’t have great speed as a cornerback and typically cited some invented injury not to run a timed 40-yard dash.

Defensive coordinator Bill Arnsparger played to Foley’s other athletic and mental strengths. He once masked his coverage so well, Jets quarterback Joe Namath pulled the ball back, was sacked, and Namath walked toward him and said, “I’m going to get you for that.”

In film studies one week, he noticed aging Baltimore Colts quarterback John Unitas didn’t have the arm strength to throw outside patterns. That idea helped set up the Dolphins defense that week.

TBS college football analyst for 15 years, Foley would ask coaches how they would adapt to a players’ lack of size or speed. Often, no accommodation was made and Foley realized again how his Dolphins were different. 18th player from the Dolphins’ Perfect Season to die. Seven former teammates were discovered posthumously to have suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE, a mental disease often caused by repeated hits to the head.Foley was involved with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes as a player. After football, Foley became one of Amway’s top producers and received an Amway award for helping build 54 homes for families in Guatemala. He then branched out the home-building into other countries.

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