HOF Coaches

I'm wondering who has coached a team in the NFL after having been
inducted into the Hall. Gibbs won't be the first - will he?
--
"Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism
are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian
statesman."
- William F. Buckley, Jr. "The Wit and Wisdom of Vlad the Impaler"

IIRC Tom Landry was inducted to the HOF while he was still an active coach.

Michael O'Connor - Modern Renaissance Man

"The likelihood of one individual being correct increases in a direct
proportion to the intensity with which others try to prove him wrong"
James Mason from the movie "Heaven Can Wait".

Nope. Landry was inducted to the HOF in 1990. He was fired by Jerry Jones in
1989.

This is the list of all HOFers and their induction years.

http://www.profootballhof.com/index.cfm?section=team&cont_id=182117

Among the coaches who gained their prominence since the 1980s, only three
of them are in the HOF: Bill Walsh, Gibbs and Marv Levy. There are two
that I expect to join them: Parcells and George Seifert. Jimmy Johnson
and Dan Reeves are borderline cases...

Ditka is a HOFer, but not as a coach...

-- Ed

news:<20040109064220.15295.00002527@mb-m12.aol.com>...

Parcells -- how could he do this to us? His loyal, lifelong Giants fans!
You wanna' go to the AFC and coach, that's fine. Jets -- big deal. Play
their home games in Giants stadium. But Dallas?! DALLAS! That son of a...
well, he did take us to the top twice. That buys a lot of f****veness.
Parcells is an absolute definite HOF for taking team after team with serious
predictions of being bottom blowers to the playoffs. Seifert -- he didn't
build anything, and his team was predicted to go all the way no matter who
the HC was. As a Giants fan, don't even try the Reeves argument.
Johnson -- sure -- just for dealing with the Jones bull alone.

I would have been a lot more impressed with Seifert as a coach if he could have
turned the Panthers around.

Michael O'Connor - Modern Renaissance Man

"The likelihood of one individual being correct increases in a direct
proportion to the intensity with which others try to prove him wrong"
James Mason from the movie "Heaven Can Wait".

The likelihood of one idiot being correct increases in direct proportion to
the intensity with which others quote a line from a freakin' movie...

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1 22nd April 02:29 david loewe, jr. External User Posts: 1	HOF Coaches I'm wondering who has coached a team in the NFL after having been inducted into the Hall. Gibbs won't be the first - will he? -- "Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman." - William F. Buckley, Jr. "The Wit and Wisdom of Vlad the Impaler"

2 22nd April 02:29 mpoconnor7 External User Posts: 1	HOF Coaches IIRC Tom Landry was inducted to the HOF while he was still an active coach. Michael O'Connor - Modern Renaissance Man "The likelihood of one individual being correct increases in a direct proportion to the intensity with which others try to prove him wrong" James Mason from the movie "Heaven Can Wait".

5 25th April 20:36 mpoconnor7 External User Posts: 1	HOF Coaches I would have been a lot more impressed with Seifert as a coach if he could have turned the Panthers around. Michael O'Connor - Modern Renaissance Man "The likelihood of one individual being correct increases in a direct proportion to the intensity with which others try to prove him wrong" James Mason from the movie "Heaven Can Wait".

6 25th April 20:36 bulger External User Posts: 1	HOF Coaches The likelihood of one idiot being correct increases in direct proportion to the intensity with which others quote a line from a freakin' movie...