Jets’ Gm Steinberg Dies After Nine-Month Battle With Cancer

Dick Steinberg, the general manager of the New York Jets and one of the NFL’s top personnel specialists for a quarter century, died Monday. He was 60.

He had been fighting stomach cancer for nine months.

Steinberg, a high school and college coach for more than a decade, also worked for the Cowboys, Rams, Saints and Patriots as a scout and personnel director. He had a hand in building Super Bowl teams in Los Angeles and New England.

Jets owner Leon Hess called Steinberg “one of the finest men in his profession.

“He has left a legacy to football of success and great achievement,” Hess said. “Dick will be sorely missed, remembered warmly and forever admired by whomever he worked with throughout his long and productive career.”

But in his time with the Jets, Steinberg was unable to turn around a team that had not won since Joe Namath promised and delivered a victory in the 1969 Super Bowl.