Super Bowl Coaches

[cthomer5000]

Am I correct in saying that Mike Holmgren can be the first coach to win Super Bowls with two different teams? I can recall a few making it with multiple teams, but off the top of my head I can't think of any who sealed the deal with two different teams.


By the way, i think winning today is a nice boost to the resume of Mike Holmgren. It seemed like he'd just been kind of wasting away in Seattle before a breakthrough year. It' also hard to believe he's now been there just as long as he was in Green Bay.

Coaches Who Have Taken 2 Different Teams

Don Shula - Baltimore (1968), Miami (1971, 1972, 1973, 1982, 1984)
Bill Parcells - NY Giants (1986, 1990), New England (1996)
Dan Reeves - Denver (1986, 1987, 1989), Atlanta (1998)
Dick Vermeil - Philadelphia (1980), St. Louis (1999)
Mike Holmgren - Green Bay (1996, 1997), Seattle (2005)

am i missing any?

[Dutch]

According to what Fox said, Holmgren can be the first to win for two different teams.

[cthomer5000]

added a couple older guys I had overlooked.... Damn did Don Shula have an impressive career.

[Swaggs]

I was thinking that it was impressive that Cowher had lead teams to the Super Bowl ten years apart. Vermeil doing it 19 years apart is crazy.

[clintl]

What's even crazier is that Vermeil didn't coach at all during most of those 19 years.

[Cringer]

It is odd to think about how Holmgren has been in Seattle as long as he was in Green Bay. As a Packer fan I will always think of him as a Packer though. And I will always laugh a bit about how he left to become a GM/head coach, and then three years later the Packers made Sherman just that. Oh the irony of it. Not that it worked out well for the Packers.....

[Swaggs]

and didn't the Seahawks strip him of GM duties, as well? Or am I thinking of someone else?

[Deattribution]

Yeah he 'stepped down' as GM last year, they were going to fire him if he didn't.

[stkelly52]

Teams are finding out that the whole GM/coach thing is a really bad idea.

[cthomer5000]

Teams are finding out that the whole GM/coach thing is a really bad idea.
It's such a conflict of interests that I can't believe any team would ever allow it. I certainly understand giving the coach a voice in the decision making process, but giving him total control is a recipe for disaster.