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A Football Life- Bill Cowher

Will have to catch that...
 
well, he's no mike tomlin, but he did alright for awhile. maybe i'll catch a few minutes if i happen to be flipping channels at that time.

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THANKS for the heads up and will catch it also. Definately liked his style of coaching.




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Yeah this is going to be fun. Thanks for the heads up.
 
Steelr4evr said:
Thanks for the heads up. He's one of my 3 favorite Steeler head coaches.
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No love for Buddy Parker?

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What about Greasy Neale. With a name like that who knows what went on. A couple mind blowing stats. Three Steelers coaches since 1969 and Big Ben with more wins in Cleveland than any Cleveland qb since their return to the league. Love that stat.
 
I'm down with him beating the Browns twice for rings, but he did it for the Lions. He'd have the last Championship in Detroit if George Wilson didn't win his championship with Buddy's players in 1957...

Fine coach, but barely over 500 for the Steelers. Good for the Steelers at the time, but doesn't touch the last 3 coaches.
 
Jock Sutherland had the only Steeler's playoff appearance between 1933 and the immaculate reception in 1947, and had a 2 year run, never under 500 for a 13-9-1 record.
 
Cope said:
I'm down with him beating the Browns twice for rings, but he did it for the Lions. He'd have the last Championship in Detroit if George Wilson didn't win his championship with Buddy's players in 1957...

Fine coach, but barely over 500 for the Steelers. Good for the Steelers at the time, but doesn't touch the last 3 coaches.
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There was a player on the Detroit Lions who played all 4 championships. His name was Robert Long and he told me a story about his rookie year. He was playing the Pittsburgh Steelers and during the game a ref made a bad call against him. He disputed the call to the ref and tap the ref's shoulder to get his attention and drew a flag and the ref hollard at him if he wanted ejected from the game and to NEVER touch a referee again. Bob said he was scared shitless but he also remembers that every team always dreaded playing the STEELERS due to how physical the STEELERS played. Everyone got banged up and knew they were in a tough *** game. I did the HVAC & Plumbing on Bob's new home and I'm just telling what he told me. I like the story/





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Oh and by the way I became a STEELERS fan in 1968 and ONLY have known Noll / Cowher / Tomlin as head coaches of the Pittsburgh Steelers so one could say...........they are my favorite three..!!!





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Coach said:
No love for Buddy Parker?

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My list goes like this.

1. Chuck Noll



2. Bill Cowher



3. Mike Tomlin
 
Those 60’s were some bleak years man. I remember going to old Pitt Stadium as a kid watching the Steelers get beat. Saw lots of teams come into Pitt Stadium: Eagles, Giants, Bears, Browns, Cards, Rams, Skins, Cowboys, Vikes, Lions. ****, I went to a lot of games at that old stadium with the wooden benches. We used to lose just about all those games I went to. Some terrible Steeler teams but it was still fun going and hoping.
All that changed when Dan Rooney took control and one Chas Noll was hired.


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Coryea said:
He coached a team with Neil Odonnell to a super bowl and 2 AFCCG, Kordell Stewart to 2 AFCCG's, and a rookie to an AFCCG. That's HOF material there

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It may be, but he also lost home AFCC games when favored in that span.....he coached scared in the post season until Ben forced him to stop it.

Bill was just like his mentor, Marty S., when it came to that.

Losing to SD, NE and Denver at home AFCC games was really bad.

Hell, he damn near lost to Indy in 1995 AFCC game as well. And they were one of the weakest teams to ever play in a AFCC game, as not only were they not
that good to begin with, they were decimated by injuries to boot, missing their best RB/player (Faulk), AND defender (Coryatt).
 
mr peeples said:
It may be, but he also lost home AFCC games when favored in that span.....he coached scared in the post season until Ben forced him to stop it.

Bill was just like his mentor, Marty S., when it came to that.

Losing to SD, NE and Denver at home AFCC games was really bad.

Hell, he damn near lost to Indy in 1995 AFCC game as well. And they were one of the weakest teams to ever play in a AFCC game, as not only were they not
that good to begin with, they were decimated by injuries to boot, missing their best RB/player (Faulk), AND defender (Coryatt).
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Played scared? Kordell threw the ball like 28 times in the first half in the 01 AFCCG, to like 8 runs, and the game was close.
1997 we were winning in FG range in the 2nd quarter, and Kordell threw an idiotic pass in the endzone that was picked off, Marty ball would've been run, run, run, kick the FG.
1994 game vs the Chargers, Neil threw the ball 52 times and we didn't get behind until mid way through the 4th. That doesn't sound like Marty ball to me.

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mr peeples said:
It may be, but he also lost home AFCC games when favored in that span.....he coached scared in the post season until Ben forced him to stop it.
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That's wrong 'Steeler fan'. Any Steeler fan know what changed. Come on, you know it right?

Sorry, you can't look this one up on a stats sheet...
 
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