Who were the Super Bowl head coaches in the year you were born?

Who were the Super Bowl head coaches in the year you were born?

 

 

Who were the Super Bowl head coaches in the year you were born?

Andy Reid and Kyle Shanahan will be the head coaches in 2020 Super Bowl. Who have been the coaches every year since the game started?

There have been many coaches to win multiple Super Bowls and others who have lost more than one. A look at the history of coaches who have made it to the big game. The year the game is actually played is what is being used as the foundation for the information, not the regular season.

Super Bowl I: 1967

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Vince Lombardi and Hank Stram were the respective coaches for the Green Bay Packers and Kansas City Chiefs in the game played at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

Cliff Harris joins Jimmy Johnson in HOF Class of 2020, Pearson snubbed again

The Dallas Cowboys got a bittersweet announcement on Wednesday, as the Centennial Slate Class of 2020 was announced for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. On Sunday, Cowboys Nation was elated to learn that head coach Jimmy Johnson was to become the …

The Dallas Cowboys got a bittersweet announcement on Wednesday, as the Centennial Slate Class of 2020 was announced for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. On Sunday, Cowboys Nation was elated to learn that head coach Jimmy Johnson was to become the 328th member of the Hall, when it was announced on live television during the NFC playoffs.

On Wednesday, another former Cowboys player was announced, but one just as deserving was once again passed over. Safety Cliff Harris, who played for the club from 1970 through 1979 is in, but wideout Drew Pearson, the original 88, was once again passed over. With Harris’ selection, Pearson becomes the only member of the 1970 All-NFL first team to not be a member of the Hall.

Here’s a full list of the Centennial Slate, who will be joined by the standard five-member inductees from the normal voting process and announced the day prior to the Super Bowl.

COACHES

  • Bill Cowher – 1992-2006 Pittsburgh Steelers
  • Jimmy Johnson – 1989-1993 Dallas Cowboys, 1996-99 Miami Dolphins 

CONTRIBUTORS

*Deceased

  • *Steve Sabol, Administrator/President – 1964-2012 NFL Films
  • Paul Tagliabue, Commissioner – 1989-2006 National Football League
  • *George Young, Contributor/General Manager – 1968-1974 Baltimore Colts, 1975-78 Miami Dolphins, 1979-1997 New York Giants, 1998-2001 National Football League

SENIORS

*Deceased

  • Harold Carmichael, WR – 1971-1983 Philadelphia Eagles, 1984 Dallas Cowboys
  • Jim Covert, T – 1983-1990 Chicago Bears
  • *Bobby Dillon, S – 1952-59 Green Bay Packers
  • Cliff Harris, S – 1970-79 Dallas Cowboys
  • *Winston Hill, T – 1963-1976 New York Jets, 1977 Los Angeles Rams
  • *Alex Karras, DT – 1958-1962, 1964-1970 Detroit Lions
  • Donnie Shell, S – 1974-1987 Pittsburgh Steelers
  • *Duke Slater, T – 1922 Milwaukee Badgers, 1922-25 Rock Island Independents,1926-1931 Chicago Cardinals
  • *Mac Speedie, E – 1946-1952 Cleveland Browns [AAFC/NFL]
  • *Ed Sprinkle, DE/LB/E – 1944-1955 Chicago Bears

Harris, ranked No. 19 in our Top 100 all-time Cowboys list, was a starter in both of Dallas’ Super Bowl wins in the 1970s. He appeared in five championship games and made six Pro Bowls in his career that also included four first-team All-Pro nods. Captain Crash had 29 career interceptions, earning him a spot in the Cowboys Ring of Honor (2004) and a place on the 1970s All-Decade Team. He’s the only member of the first team not inducted into the Hall of Fame.

Pearson accumulated a Career AV of 99 over his 156 games. He’ll forever live in NFL lore as the receiving end of the first Hail Mary, and caught 489 passes across his 144 starts. Pearson averaged 16 yards per reception and hauled in 48 career touchdowns while making three Pro Bowls and three All-Pro teams.

 

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Best bets for which Pro Football Hall of Fame centennial finalists will be enshrined

The Pro Football Hall of Fame’s special Centennial Class of 2020 will be announced Jan. 15 but the 38 finalists for induction have been revealed. As per the HOF’s official web site release: A special Blue-Ribbon Panel comprised of many members of …

The Pro Football Hall of Fame’s special Centennial Class of 2020 will be announced Jan. 15 but the 38 finalists for induction have been revealed. As per the HOF’s official web site release:

A special Blue-Ribbon Panel comprised of many members of the overall Pro Football Hall of Fame Selection Committee, Hall of Famers, coaches, football executives and several leading historians has scrutinized the merits of nearly 300 candidates nominated for consideration as part of the Hall’s special Centennial Class of 2020. The finalists will be deliberated by the Blue-Ribbon Panel in January from which 10 Seniors, three (3) Contributors and two (2) Coaches will be elected to the Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2020. The remainder of the one-time 20-person Class of 2020 will include five Modern-Era Players who will be elected from 15 finalists by the full Selection Committee on “Selection Saturday,” the eve of Super Bowl LIV in Miami.

So, with that in mind, here are our next best guesses — former coaches turned analysts, Bill Cowher and Jimmy Johnson, have already been announced as in — for the sweet Centennial Class enshrinees.

Will Bill Cowher and Jimmy Johnson help Dan Reeves and Mike Shanahan reach Hall of Fame?

If Bill Cowher and Jimmy Johnson belong in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Dan Reeves and Mike Shanahan do, too.

The Pro Football Hall of Fame will have a special 20-member class in 2020 in celebration of the NFL’s 100 years. The expanded class will include 15 “Centennial Slate” inductees, two of which are coaches.

Former Broncos coach Dan Reeves was among the finalists for the “Centennial Slate” but the voters choose former Steelers coach Bill Cowher and former Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson instead.

Many fans and pundits on Twitter were perplexed about Johnson and Cowher reaching the Hall of Fame over Reeves and another former Broncos coach, Mike Shanahan.

It’s debatable if Reeves and Shanahan were more deserving but one could make a strong case that they are at least as deserving.

Shanahan was a brilliant offensive mind that won two Super Bowls as a head coach and three overall. His style of offense is still seen around the NFL thanks to his impressive coaching tree that includes Gary Kubiak, Kyle Shanahan (his son), Sean McVay and Matt LaFleur.

If voters believe that Johnson and Cowher belong in the Hall of Fame, surely they must believe Reeves and Shanahan do as well, right? Unfortunately, that might not be the case, in part because of the voting process for the 2020 class.

Johnson and Cowher were selected by a special “blue-ribbon panel,” not the usual selection committee. That panel’s view on what’s deserving of Hall of Fame recognition might not line up with the selection committee’s view, so even if Shanahan and Reeves are just as deserving as Johnson and Cowher, Denver’s two former coaches might still face an uphill battle to Canton. Classes will go back to being selected by the usual committee in 2021.

While the Broncos won’t have a coach enter the Hall of Fame this year, the team does have three finalists: modern-era safeties Steve Atwater and John Lynch and linebacker Randy Gradishar, a Centennial Slate candidate.

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Jerry Jones looks super petty now that Jimmy Johnson will be in HOF

The rift is as much a part of Cowboys lore as the chips won together. With the HOF nod, the light shines on it once again.

Sports is often a microcosm of life; it’s one of the things that makes it so endearing to all. Rooting for our favorite teams often operate for us as a faith, with unbridled devotion. Fans defend their favorite players with ties sometimes thicker than how they view their own family members. Life lessons are often exemplified by what it takes to be successful on the field. Commitment, honor, valor and effort earn respect. Sometimes they earn accolades, like championships, other times the rewards are more internal but just as righteous.

These lessons can manifest themselves in different ways. One is when it comes to being commemorated for carrying oneself the right way. Parents will often tell their children that if you don’t respect yourself then how can anyone else respect you? Jerry Jones believes this. He knows that the Cowboys Ring of Honor, reserved for the best players and coaches in franchise history, is the gatekeeper to the Pro Football Hall of Fame for those who’ve come through Dallas. Without entrance to the Ring of Honor, it’s highly unlikely a person would make their way to Canton.

Jones knows this, but despite Jimmy Johnson bringing Jones his first two championships and setting the stage for the third and currently last one, Jones has not offered Johnson a place in the Ring.

Despite this, Johnson learned on Sunday the Hall will indeed open their doors for him and he will be the 328th member, joining this August. The fact that he’s in, clearly for the work he did with the Dallas Cowboys, and not in the Ring of Honor paints Jones as a petty person.

The two have publicly buried the hatchet after they parted ways in the mid-90s. The rift began to develop as the team was on its way to winning back-to-back championships, with Jones at a bar saying anyone could win titles with the Cowboys’ roster. Things devolved from there and eventually led to Johnson wanting out and Jones wanting him gone.

Jones and the Cowboys offered congratulations to Johnson after the announcement.

“We’re so happy that the Hall of Fame has recognized Jimmy Johnson for what he is. A great coach,” said Jones, who hired Johnson as Cowboys head coach after buying the team in 1989.

“To Jimmy I say, ‘The stars were aligned and our dreams came true when we joined the Dallas Cowboys.’

“And on behalf of the Cowboys, and our fans all over the world, I say congratulations Jimmy. We’re proud of you.”

There’s plenty of talk over whether Jones fired Johnson, whether Johnson quit or whether they mutually decided to part ways. Whatever the case, Johnson left, Jones hired Barry Switzer and they won another Lombardi trophy.

The divide appeared to be bridged over the latter part of the last decade. Jones heaped mounds of praise on Johnson during his speech when the former was elected into the Hall of Fame in 2016. They played nice at a 25th anniversary celebration,

But the real talk, his real emotions towards the situation came out back in 2014, when he was speaking openly to ESPN feature writer Don Van Natta, Jr.

At the Ritz-Carlton, I first asked Jones why he had not honored Johnson; after all, he had coached the Cowboys to two Super Bowl titles in five years, while it took Landry 29 years to win the same number. Jones responded with a convoluted explanation about Johnson failing to meet the standards favoring players established long ago by Tex Schramm, whom Jones himself had put in the Ring of Honor in 2003. (Jones had honored Landry in 1993.) Weeks later, Jones struggled to answer the same question during our on-camera interview at Valley Ranch, insisting that his decision is not personal.

But it is.

Onboard his plane, with Gene sitting in a leather chair across from us, Jones spits out the reason Johnson isn’t in the Ring of Honor: “Disloyalty … I couldn’t handle the disloyalty. Whether it was right or not, by every measurement you can go, I had paid so many times a higher price to get to be there than he had paid, it was unbelievable. … By any way you wanna measure it, wear and tear, pain, worry, butt kickin’, the criticism — everything in the book!”

Petty.

Jones knows the Ring is the gateway. He added stellar tackle and six-time Pro Bowler Rayfield Wright  – who played for Dallas from 1967 – 1979 – in 2004, opening Wright to be added to the Hall if 2006 from the veteran’s committee. He added longtime personnel savant Gil Brandt in November 2018, paving the way for his Hall invitation to come a handful of months later.

He’s made similar efforts for Drew Peason and Darren Woodson. But despite the flowery language he’s heaped on Johnson since that 2014 ESPN interview, he never made the move to have Johnson honored in front of Cowboys fans.

And now that the Hall has opened their doors, it makes Jones’ sustained beef seem overcooked and very, very petty.

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Jimmy Johnson receives 2020 Hall of Fame invitation on live TV

The coach who orchestrated the Dallas Cowboys’ dynasty of the 1990s will be enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, he learned Sunday.

The Dallas Cowboys had, for a time being, one of the NFL’s most immaculate list of coaches, overshadowing even the Pittsburgh Steelers. Following directly on the heels of the legendary and iconic Tom Landry, Jimmy Johnson arrived in Texas with the most flash and even more substance. He stamped his own legacy in Dallas in immediate fashion, turning the Cowboys from laughing stocks to champions in a few short years and was the first coach to win both a collegiate national championship and a Super Bowl.

Johnson’s Cowboys won back-to-back NFL titles, and his imprint on the organization led to a third ring in four years under a different coach. For a while, his shorter-than-normal tenure seemed to keep him from being officially recognized as one of the game’s best, but no more. On Sunday, during halftime of the NFC divisional round playoff game, Johnson learned that he was finally joining the Pro Football Hall of Fame as its 328th member.

The moment, which played out with Hall of Fame president David Baker personally delivering the news to Johnson on live TV, was riveting to watch.

Few could have imagined that they were looking at a future Hall of Famer when Johnson first arrived in Dallas. Despite having a collegiate national championship under his belt, Johnson inherited a league-worst 3-13 Cowboys squad… and promptly got even worse in his first season on the sideline. The 1-15 season of 1989 remains a low-water mark for the franchise that was most notable for the seemingly-inexplicable midseason trade that sent running back Herschel Walker packing for Minnesota in exchange for a collection of no-name players and future draft picks.

But Johnson was building a dynasty, one that was anchored by quarterback Troy Aikman, whom Johnson selected with the first pick in the 1989 Draft less than two months after being named coach. Aikman, of course, went on to his own stellar 12-year career that earned him a gold jacket and a Hall of Fame bust in 2008.

Aikman, one of the three players most responsible for the team’s meteoric rise under Johnson- was in the broadcast booth at Lambeau Field watching on a monitor as his former coach got his long-overdue invitation in the New York studios.

Of course, Johnson’s job involved a lot more than gameplanning wins and fussing over Xs and Os. The Cowboys of the early 1990s were a legendarily wild and colorful bunch. Johnson’s locker rooms were loaded with undeniable talent but also overflowing with combustible personalities including the likes of Michael Irvin, Emmitt Smith, Nate Newton, Ken Norton Jr., Daryl Johnston, Mark Stepnoski, Erik Williams, Leon Lett, Bill Bates, Jack Del Rio, Russell Maryland, Charles Haley, and Darren Woodson.

Motivating such a diverse band of men and channeling their energies in one direction is perhaps as impressive a feat as taking the Cowboys from the bottom of the heap in 1989 (1-15, worst record in the league) to the top of the mountain in 1992 (13-3, Super Bowl champs).

Several of Johnson’s former players- including the other two-thirds of the famed Triplets- took to social media to congratulate their former coach after Sunday’s news.

Dallas repeated as Super Bowl victors in 1993, putting Johnson in rarified air among NFL coaches. He joins Vince Lombardi, Don Shula, Chuck Noll, Mike Shanahan, and Bill Belichick as the only coaches to win back to-back Super Bowls.

After his second Lombardi Trophy, Johnson and Cowboys owner Jerry Jones famously parted ways in a rather ugly divorce. Johnson went on to coach Miami for four more seasons before retiring with a career coaching record of 80-64 (9-4 postseason) and then segueing into broadcasting.

Johnson, 76, will be enshrined in Canton along with the rest of the Class of 2020 in August.

Jimmy Johnson finds out he is a Hall of Famer with a great, live-on-TV surprise

Just awesome.

On Saturday, former Pittsburgh Steelers coach Bill Cowher learned that he was elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame with a live surprise during the CBS pregame show for Titans-Ravens.

A day later, it was Jimmy Johnson’s turn.

During the halftime show for Sunday’s NFC Divisional matchup of Seahawks-Packers, the president of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, David Baker, dropped by the Fox set and had some exciting news for Johnson.

Having seen what unfolded with Cowher on Saturday, Johnson — a two-time Super Bowl champion coach — immediately knew why Baker was visiting the set and grew overwhelmed with emotion. It was another fantastic moment and an even better surprise.

As the humbled Johnson was reacting to the news, the Fox broadcast showed a shot of a visibly tearful Troy Aikman at Lambeau Field.

Everything about the moment was executed wonderfully. Congratulations to Johnson.

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WATCH: Jimmy Johnson gets emotional after learning he is a Hall of Famer on the air for FOX

A day after Bill Cowher learned on CBS he would be a Hall of Famer, Jimmy Johnson found out on FOX.

Halftime usually is a good time to refresh. However, you missed a great moment if you stepped away from the FOX broadcast of the NFC Divisional round game between the Seahawks and Packers Sunday. Former Dallas Cowboys and Miami Dolphins coach Jimmy Johnson learned he is going to be part of the 2020 Class, much the way Bill Cowher did a day earlier.

Per NFL.com

Before entering the professional coaching ranks, Johnson spent 10 seasons as head coach of Oklahoma State and Miami (Fla.), during which he compiled an 81-34-3 record and led the Hurricanes to an undefeated season and national title in 1987.

In 1989, Jerry Jones and the Cowboys hired Johnson out of Miami to succeed Tom Landry as just the second coach in Cowboys history. Johnson won AP Coach of the Year for leading Dallas to a 7-9 mark in 1990. Dallas made the playoffs in 1991 and then secured back-to-back division titles in 1992 and 1993 en route to Super Bowl titles, as well. In Johnson’s five seasons in Dallas, the Cowboys went 44-36 in the regular season and 7-1 in the postseason. Five of his Cowboys players are also in the Hall of Fame (Aikman, Irvin, Smith, Larry Allen, Charles Haley).

Johnson parted ways with the Cowboys in the 1994 offseason, only to reemerge with the Dolphins in 1996 to replace another legendary coach in Don Shula. Johnson’s Dolphins never won the division but made the postseason three times and went 36-28 in four campaigns.

Johnson was emotional and moved, to say the least.

At the 40-second mark below you can see Johnson’s former quarterback with the Cowboys, Hall of Famer Troy Aikman, getting misty, too.

The announcement came a day after former Pittsburgh Steelers coach Bill Cowher was surprised on the air for CBS.

 

Dallas Cowboys coaching history: From Tom Landry to Jason Garrett

Jason Garrett is out and the big question is who will be the ninth head coach in Dallas Cowboys’ history?

The Dallas Cowboys are preparing for the ninth coach in franchise history. What started with the legendary Tom Landry will move on now that the team has parted ways with Jason Garrett. The men who have run the show on the Dallas sideline.

Tom Landry

Twenty-nine years and two Super Bowl championships and five NFC championships put Tom Landry on the Mount Rushmore of NFL coaches. (Getty Images)

Tom Landry was remarkable in his reign as Cowboys coach. So often coaches of expansion teams never see success. Landry coached for 29 years from 1960-88. He was 250-162-6 and 20-16 in the postseason. Forty-six of those losses came in Dallas’ first five seasons, which tells you how incredible Landry was once the franchise was entrenched in the NFL.