Eddie J. Jones (June 18, 1938 – June 27, 2012) was an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wi ...

executive in the

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(NFL). He joined the

Miami Dolphins The Miami Dolphins are a professional American football team based in the Miami metropolitan area. They compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member team of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) East division. The team p ...

in 1988 as the vice president of administration and finance before becoming the Dolphins' executive vice president and general manager in 1990. He became the team's president in 1996 and retired in 2005.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, Eddie 1938 births 2012 deaths Louisiana State University alumni Miami Dolphins executives National Football League general managers National Football League team presidents New Orleans Saints executives