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Beathard had been considering the move for several weeks, expressing a desire to spend more time with his wife and grandchildren. He is able to walk away now because he feels good about where the team is heading under second-year coach Mike Riley. Beathard had said privately.
SAN DIEGO — Bobby Beathard, the surfing general manager of the San Diego Chargers, announced his retirement yesterday evening, ending a 37-year NFL career in which he built Super Bowl teams on both coasts and often left fans flabbergasted with his draft-day gambling.
Beathard, still an avid surfer at 63, had two seasons left on his contract. Beathard was associated with seven Super Bowl teams in his career, four of which won the NFL title game.
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He came under increasing criticism in recent years about many of his player acquisitions. One of his legacies will be mortgaging the club's future in order to draft troubled quarterback Ryan Leaf with the second pick
overall in the 1998 draft
The Chargers have endured Leaf's bratty behavior and poor play, and Beathard suspended Leaf for four weeks last November after the quarterback cursed at him.
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Beathard was a scout for the Kansas City Chiefs in 1966 when they played in the first Super Bowl,
and then was Director of player personal for the M i a m I Dolphins when they won the Super Bowl in 1972 and 1973.
Beathard made his mark as general manager of the Washington Redskins from 1978-88. He hired Joe Gibbs' as coach in 1981 and the Redskins went to three Super Bowls during Beathard's tenure, winning two.
It was also with the Redskins that Beathard showed his disdain for first-round draft picks. He traded them away in order to take lesser-known players in the second round. He used only three first-round draft picks in 11 years at Washington, and continued that trend as boss of the
Beathard nearly quit in January 1994 when owner Alex Spanos balked at paying signing bonuses needed to retain some star players. Beathard and Spanos resolved their differences, leading to the owner turning the day-to-day operation of the franchise to his son, Dean.
Beathard spent 10 seasons with the Chargers and presided during some of the franchises most turbulent times.
It is believed that Dean Spanos, rather than name a new general manager, will replace Beathard with Ed McGuire, the coordinator of football operations who handles contract negotiations and probably would take a vice president's title. Billy Devaney, the director of player personnel, would make the decisions on player moves.
Hired by San Diego in January 1990, he helped turn the Chargers from perennial losers into a Super Bowl team in five years. But the luster didn't last long as the Chargers were embarrassed 49-26 by the San Francisco 49ers in the Super Bowl following the 1994 season.
The Chargers have been back to the playoffs just once.
DENVER - Denver Broncos cornerback Dale Carter has been suspended by the NFL for one year for violating the league's substance-abuse policy.
The league said Carter would be eligible for reinstatement following the 2000 season.
Chargers. But his habit of gambling often backfired in recent years.
Already a two-time offender of the NFL's substance-abuse policy, Carter is believed to have missed at least two drug tests during January and February. The NPL declined to comment specifically on his case.
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Carter's agent, Mitch Frankel,
insisted that Carter did not fall
any recent drug tests. However,
the NFL counts a missed test the
The NFL handed down its ruling yesterday, rejecting Carter's appeal, which was made at a
lengthy hearing April 5.
same as a failed test.
Before coming to Denver, Carter played seven years with the Kansas City Chiefs and was selected to four Pro Bowls.
When the Denver Post reported last month that Carter faced a one year suspension if his appeal was denied, several teammates criticized Carter for partying too much and having a bad temper.
Carter, 30, stands to lose $3.5 million in base salary, and he also might have to reimburse the Broncos a prorated portion of his $7.8 million signing bonus.
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The Broncos signed Carter, one of the league's best cover corners, to a lucrative free-agent contract in 1999. Carter was expected to give Denver one of the league's best cornerback tandems, but Carter struggled throughout the 1999 season.
After the Broncos lost 26-10 at Kansas City Sept. 19, Carter allegedly threw a party for teammates in the backseat of a rented limousine before boarding the team bus.
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The suspension likely means Carter's career with the Broncos is finished. Because of the pending suspension, the Broncos selected cornerback/kick returner Deltha O'Neal of California in the first round of the NFL draft 10 days ago.
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