Mike Shanahan

Mike Shanahan is currently the head coach of the Denver Broncos of the NFL. Shanhan formerly served as Offensive Coordinator for the Broncos under Dan Reeves and had a brief stint as the coach of the Los Angeles Raiders going 8-12 before being fired and returning to the Broncos as offensive coordinator again under Reeves. Thereafter, he fell in with football's greatest offensive mind, Bill Walsh. Shahanan was promoted to offensive coordinator with the San Francisco 49ers on George Seifert's staff, capping his rise with a Super Bowl win in January 1995. The 49ers offense that year has been hailed as one of the greatest of all time, with the likes of Steve Young, Jerry Rice, and Ricky Watters scoring points in flurries. Shanahan's tremendous success under Walsh earned him a head coaching spot once more, this time with the Broncos beginning in the 1995 campaign. There, Shanahan coached the Broncos to back to back Super Bowl Championships and was the last coach to do so until New England's Bill Belichick did so in 2004 and 2005. He is known for scooping running backs from all rounds of the draft, and then turning them into bruising league-leading rushers. Of late, he has faced criticism and is on the hot seat for not delievering playoff success since since John Elway's retirement, and Terrell Davis's career-ending injuries. In each of the Broncos playoff appearances in the Post-Elway era they have been eliminated in the first round twice by the Colts and once by the Ravens.

With the assistance of writer Adam Schefter, Shanahan penned "Think Like a Champion" in 1999, a motivational book about leadership. It was published by Harper Collins.