Hank Stram, Requiescat in pace.

Hank Stram former head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs and New Orleans Saints has died at the age of 82.

Len Pasquarelli of ESPN.com has an excellent article on Coach Stram, the inventor of the rolling pocket and other football innovations.

That word, innovator, was clearly the most oft-used description of Stram in all of the early reaction pieces authored Monday evening following his death earlier in the day at age 82. It is, when discussing football, an easy term (much in the manner my kids resort with far too much facility to the word great to describe anything remotely beyond the ordinary) to toss around. In Hank Stram's case, though, it fit even better than the finely-tailored blazers with which he once graced the sideline.