Bill Walsh died today. If you grew up in the Bay Area in the 1980′s you grew up with Bill Walsh leading the dominant football team of the era… a team not of superstar free agents but of a team that won only 2 games in their first season. Who knew then that Walsh had assembled a team of future hall of famers.

Amazingly, Wikipedia is already updated and the news broke only about 90 minutes ago.

I’ll remember Walsh for something else altogether, he and his wife have over the years tirelessly given the use of their home in Atherton to the Vista Center (previously known as the Peninsula Center for the Blind & Visually Impaired) for an annual food and wine auction that raised a significant amount of the funding for the organization.