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Former Chiefs HC Dick Vermeil selected to Pro Football Hall of Fame’s 2022 class

Former #Chiefs HC Dick Vermeil will be enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a member of the 2022 class.

After being named a coaching finalist earlier this year, former Kansas City Chiefs HC Dick Vermeil has been selected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He’ll join seven others as a part of the 2022 class, including Tony Boselli, Bryant Young, Richard Seymour, Sam Mills, LeRoy Butler, Cliff Branch and Art McNally.

Vermeil joined the Chiefs as head coach in 2001, just a season after leading the St. Louis Rams to a Super Bowl victory with the “Greatest Show on Turf.” He’d go on to coach in Kansas City for his final five seasons in the NFL, mentoring some of the most explosive offensive players in franchise history, including RB Priest Holmes, TE Tony Gonzalez, WR Dante Hall, LT Willie Roaf, RG Will Shields and more.

While Vermeil was unable to repeat his Super Bowl successes with the Chiefs, he won over plenty of hearts in Kansas City. An entire generation of Chiefs fans grew up watching his teams compete and win games. He coached the team to a 44-36 regular-season spanning 80 games with the team. Unfortunately, that success only once resulted in a playoff berth. In 2003, Vermeil’s Chiefs team went 13-3 in the regular season, winning the AFC West division. They faced the Indianapolis Colts in the divisional round of the playoffs and would lose the game 38-31.

Vermeil has now become the third former Chiefs head coach to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, joining Marv Levy and Hank Stram. There will almost certainly be other head coaches of the franchise to join them all in the future.

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Former Rams coach Dick Vermeil elected to Pro Football Hall of Fame

Dick Vermeil is headed to the Hall of Fame as a member of the 2022 class.

The Rams have added another member of their franchise to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Former Rams head coach Dick Vermeil was elected as a member of the Class of 2022 on Thursday night at the NFL Honors show.

Vermeil was only with the Rams for three seasons, but his final year in St. Louis was a memorable one. He led the Rams to a 13-3 record, NFC West title and a Super Bowl ring.

The Rams beat the Titans in Super Bowl XXXIV to cap off the 1999 season, Vermeil’s first and only Super Bowl championship. He finished his Rams career with a 22-26 overall record, but in his 15 years as an NFL head coach, he went 120-109, also reaching the playoffs with the Eagles and Chiefs.

Below is the full 2022 Hall of Fame class, which you’ll notice doesn’t include Torry Holt. He was unfortunately snubbed once again, his third year as a finalist.

Former Eagles coach Dick Vermeil named a finalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2022

Former Eagles coach Dick Vermeil named a finalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2022

Former Eagles head coach Dick Vermeil was named coaching finalist for the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2022.

Vermeil’s candidacies will be voted on the day before the Super Bowl, along with a contributor finalist who will be named next week and 15 player finalists who will be named in January.

Vermeil became the Eagles’ head coach in 1976 and led them to the Super Bowl (losing to the Raiders) in 1980. Citing burnout, retired after the 1982 season, but returned to coaching with the Rams in 1997.

In the buildup to being nicknamed the greatest show on turf, Vermeil led the then St. Louis Rams Super Bowl victory in 1999 before retiring again.

One year later, Vermeil came out of retirement to lead the Kansas City Chiefs for five years before retiring for good.

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Former Chiefs HC Dick Vermeil selected as finalist for 2022 Hall of Fame class

Former #Chiefs HC Dick Vermeil has been selected as the Coach Finalist for the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s 2022 class.

A former head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs has been selected as a finalist for the 2022 Pro Football Hall of Fame.

A panel of Hall of Fame selectors met virtually on Tuesday to make selections for the 2022 Pro Football Hall of Fame’s Senior Finalist and Coaching Finalist. After plenty of deliberation with seven total candidates, the committee of selectors named former Chiefs HC Dick Vermeil as the Coaching Finalist for the 2022 class.

Vermeil joining the Chiefs as head coach just a season after leading the Rams to a Super Bowl victory. He’d coach in Kansas City for his final five seasons in the NFL, mentoring some of the most explosive offensive players in franchise history to that point. That group included Priest Holmes, Tony Gonzalez, Dante Hall, Willie Roaf, Will Shields and more.

“I am overwhelmed. I’m not sure I belong there,” Vermeil said, via the Hall of Fame’s website.

He added that the committee had his, “deepest appreciation and gratitude.”

While Vermeil was unable to repeat his Super Bowl successes with the Chiefs, he did win plenty of games in Kansas City with a 44-36 regular-season record in the 80 games he coached the team. Unfortunately, that success only once resulted in a playoff berth. His 2003 team went 13-3 in the regular season, but lost to the Indianapolis Colts 38-31 in the divisional round of the playoffs.

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Dick Vermeil selected as Coach Finalist for 2022 Hall of Fame class

Dick Vermeil will have a chance to get inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a member of the Class of 2022.

Former Rams coach Dick Vermeil will get his shot at the Pro Football Hall of Fame after the coaching committed voted him as the Coach Finalist for the Class of 2022. A panel of nine members of the Hall of Fame’s selection committee voted on the candidates, whose careers ended at least five years ago.

Vermeil was selected out of the seven total candidates to be named the Coach Finalist for next year’s class.

“I am overwhelmed. I’m not sure I belong there,” Vermeil said in a statement, via the Hall of Fame’s website, before adding that the committee has his “deepest appreciation and gratitude.”

Vermeil spent three years with the Rams from 1997-1999. He led St. Louis to the playoffs just once in those three seasons and had a record of 22-26, but his greatest accomplishment as a coach came with the Rams.

Following a dominant 13-3 season in 1999 where they led the league in points and yards, earning the title of the Greatest Show on Turf, the Rams marched all the way to the Super Bowl and beat the Titans, 23-16. It was Vermeil’s second trip to the Super Bowl in his career, but his first time winning the Lombardi Trophy.

In total, he made the playoffs six times as an NFL head coach, four times with the Eagles, once with the Chiefs and once with the Rams. He retired with a career record of 120-109, with a 6-5 mark in the playoffs.

For Vermeil to be elected to the Hall of Fame, he must receive 80% voting support from the Selection Committee when votes are submitted early next year.

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Former Chiefs HC Dick Vermeil to be portrayed by Dennis Quaid in upcoming Kurt Warner biopic

Former #Chiefs HC Dick Vermeil will be portrayed by Dennis Quaid in an upcoming film about #Rams Hall of Fame QB Kurt Warner | from @EdEastonJr

The movie theaters are open around the country, featuring some of the best in cinema in every genre. A story surrounding former NFL MVP Kurt Warner will provide plenty of insight into the former quarterback and those around him during his improbable run with the 1999 St. Louis Rams.

The new film is titled “American Underdog: The Kurt Warner Story.” It stars actor Zachary Levi as Warner, featuring his rise to fame from a journeyman quarterback struggling to keep a job. The film will also showcase plenty of the people around Warner, including his then-head coach Dick Vermeil, who actor Dennis Quaid plays in the biopic. Vermeil famously rolled the dice on naming Warner an unproven backup as his starting quarterback after starter Trent Green suffered a season-ending knee injury in the preseason.

Vermeil spent three seasons as the Rams head coach, briefly retiring after winning Super Bowl XXXIV. He would coach the Kansas City Chiefs for four seasons, notably winning the AFC West in 2003 with a 13-3 record. Warner’s biopic is set for release on December 10th isn’t the first time Vermeil has been portrayed in a film as he was also featured in the 2006 film “Invincible.”

Actor Greg Kinnear played Vermeil in that biopic about former Philadelphia Eagles longshot Vince Papale. In an ESPN interview set around that film’s release, Vermeil praised Kinnear’s performance due to his son’s evaluation.

”My son called me,” said Vermeil, ”and his exact words were, ‘Dad, he nailed you.’ He said it will be scary for me to see someone else being me and doing it so well! That’s a funny thought, huh? And I think my son was especially interested in what it would be like to see someone else playing his dad; he was very impressed. My son’s known me for 49 years, so you can’t fool him; he’s been looking at me for a long time.”

We haven’t heard any early reviews on Quaid’s performance yet, but there is a glimpse of the former Chiefs coach in the trailer. Any chance Vermeil’s tenure in Kansas City will have a moment on the big screen one day as well?

“American Underdog: The Kurt Warner Story” is slated for December 10th release.

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The 11 coaches who failed to get the Kansas City Chiefs to the Super Bowl

50 years of head coaches failed to get the Chiefs to the Super Bowl. Hank Stram got the Chiefs there twice and now Andy Reid has them back.

Hank Stram took the Chiefs to a championship at Super Bowl IV. Andy Reid has them finally back in the big game at LIV. So who were the coaches who failed to get the Chiefs to the championship game for 50 years?

Paul Wiggin (11-24)

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Paul Wiggin was a member of the last Browns team to win a championship in 1964. Cleveland was the final straw in his time as Chiefs head coach. He was hired  on Jan. 23, 1975. After compiling an 11–24 mark in less than three seasons, Wiggin was fired following a 44–7 loss against the Browns, on October 30, 1977.

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Mike McCarthy looks to accomplish what 12 Super Bowl-winning coaches failed to do

Mike McCarthy is looking to become the first head coach to win Super Bowls with two franchises.

The Dallas Cowboys picked a coach with a Super Bowl-winning pedigree in Mike McCarthy. However, the Joneses are going to have to defy NFL history if the ninth coach in franchise history is to bring home a ring. No coach that has won a Super Bowl and either moved on to another team or returned to the team it won a championship  with (Joe Gibbs) his done it again.

Vince Lombardi

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Vince Lombardi was the coach of the Green Bay Packers as they won the first two Super Bowls. Lombardi left the Frozen Tundra in 1968. He turned up as coach in Washington in 1969 and was 7-5-2 in his lone season.

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Dick Vermeil, Harold Carmichael among 3 former Eagles named Centennial Slate Hall of Fame finalists

Dick Vermeil named a finalist for 2020 Pro Football Hall of Fame

With the NFL celebrating its 100th season this year, a special provision was put in place for a one-time 20 member Hall of Fame class for 2020 inductees.

A special Blue-Ribbon Panel comprised of many members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame Selection Committee, Hall of Famers, coaches, football executives, and football historians disputed the merits of 300 Senior candidates nominated for the special consideration as part of the Hall’s special Centennial Class of 2020.

The list was reduced to a group of finalist that will be voted on by the Panel to elect the 15-member “Centennial Slate” to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Former Eagles head coach Dick Vermeil, Harold Carmichael and the late great offensive tackle Al Wistert have named finalist and are now among the group that will be reduced to 10 Seniors, three (3) Contributors and two (2) Coaches that will be elected to the Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2020.

Carmichael played for with the Eagles from 1971 to 1983 and had one lone season with the rival Dallas Cowboys in 1984, finishing his career with 590 receptions for 8,985 yards and 79 touchdowns.

His best season came in 1972 when Carmichael led the NFL with 67 catches and 1,116 receiving yards. He was also a four-time Pro Bowler.

Vermeil was the head coach for the Philadelphia Eagles (1976–1982), St. Louis Rams (1997–1999) and Kansas City Chiefs (2001–2005), taking all three franchises to the playoffs after they previously had losing records the year before he arrived.

He’s most famous for leading the Rams to their only Super Bowl victory in Super Bowl XXXIV with a 23–16 win over the Tennessee Titans. In Philadelphia, Vermeil took a team without a first-round pick for three years and led them to the playoffs for the first time in 18 seasons.

Vermeil led the Eagles to Super Bowl XV, where they to Oakland, 27–10.

Wistert played his entire nine-year NFL career for the Eagles after a storied career at the University of Michigan. Wistert has the distinction of being named to play in the NFL’s first Pro Bowl as an Eagle and he was named an All-Pro 8 times.