Later Career
Out of football during 1966, Trimble remained in Hudson, Quebec, a suburb of Montreal. Here, he and a Montreal friend began to market a new type of goal post that was supported by only one post, instead of the two that had been the standard since the game began. The so-called "slingshot" goalposts, named because of their "Y" shape, were adopted by the NFL in 1967, just after Trimble returned to coaching as an offensive line assistant with the New York Giants. Trimble had been offered the job by head coach Allie Sherman while attempting to sell the team his innovative goal posts.
When Sherman was fired during the 1969 preseason, Trimble was transferred to the scouting department, where he would spend the next two decades before retiring. During the latter portion of this era, he earned a Super Bowl ring. He then spent his retirement in Indianapolis, Indiana before dying in 2006 of emphysema.
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