1989 Super Bowl XXIII - San Francisco 49ers over Cincinnati Bengals 20-16

Jul 30, 2007 - San Francisco, CA, USA - WILLIAM ERNEST WALSH (November 30, 1931 Ð July 30, 2007), one of the greatest football coaches of all time. Bill Walsh, the inventor of the West Coast Offense. Walsh, guided the San Francisco 49ers to three Super Bowl championships and six NFC West division titles in his 10 years as head coach, has died at the age of 75, following a long battle with leukemia. Walsh didn't become an NFL head coach until 47, building the once-woebegone 49ers into the most successful team of the 1980s with his innovative offensive strategies and teaching techniques. Walsh went 102-63-1 with the 49ers, winning 10 of his 14 postseason games along with six division titles. Few men did more to shape the look of football into the 21st century. Nicknamed "The Genius" well before his election to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1993. Walsh created the Minority Coaching Fellowship program in 1987, helping minority coaches to get a foothold in a previously lily-white profession. He also helped to establish the World League of American Football - now NFL Europe - in 1994, taking the sport around the globe as a development ground for the NFL. PICTURED: BILL WALSH, on the sidelines of Super Bowl XXIII Florida January 22, 1989. (Photo by Sporting News via Getty Images/Sporting News via Getty Images via Getty Images)