Sam Wyche was a goofy but revolutionary coach for the Bengals and Bucs who in the 1980s introduced the no-huddle offense to the NFL. Once nicknamed “Wicky Wacky Wyche”, Wyche was a reputed jokester known for his cleverness and his skills as a motivator. Himself a backup quarterback for seven NFL seasons, Wyche’s best season as a coach was with the 1988 Bengals, who went 12-4 and lost by four points in the Super Bowl, after a game-winning drive led by Joe Montana. The 6-foot-4 Wyche, whose voice would turn gruff while shouting, had his most famous moment in late 1989 when, after Bengals fans started throwing snowballs onto the field during a game against Seattle, he angrily ran across the turf and grabbed the PA announcer’s microphone. “Will the next person that sees anybody throw anything onto this field, point him out, and get him out of here?” he yelled. “You don’t live in Cleveland; you live in Cincinnati!” After his career ended in 1995 with an 84-107 record, he worked as a broadcaster, substitute teacher, and a volunteer high school football coach. In 2016, while living on a farm in South Carolina with his wife, Wyche was hours away from death due to a degenerative heart condition, but he received a heart transplant at the last moment and survived.