Farewell Coach.
As a New England Patriots and a National Football League fan, I want to thank one of the finest coaches in league history for everything he did. Bill Parcells retired on Monday as the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys. At the age of sixty-five and after nineteen years as a head coach, Parcells seems ready to move on to the next period of his life and await his enshrinement into Canton Ohio, the home of the Professional Football Hall of Fame.
When Parcells took over the Patriots’ head coaching duties in 1993, New England was the laughingstock of the League. The Patriots were mired in mediocrity, under a constant threat of relocation, and playing in a stadium that resembled a Texas high school football field. What Parcells brought to New England was a level of credibility that reached far beyond the limits most coaches could provide. He, along with Drew Bledsoe, helped to build a fan base that most never could have expected to exist. The Boston sports landscape always had the Patriots far below the Red Sox, Celtics and Bruins in the hierarchy. While Bill Belichick and Tom Brady are rightly considered the crown princes of the Patriots’ dynasty now, none of this would be possible without the work of Coach Parcells.
Even though he has often been thought upon as a coach who quickly grows tired of his environment and is always on the lookout for a new challenge, he is the only coach to lead four franchises to the post-season and he has always prided himself on leaving his former teams in much better shape then when he arrived. By his second year at each stop, Parcells always had his team in the post season.
This past year in Dallas really seemed to take a toll on the coach. Just watching him roam the sidelines, you could tell that much of his enthusiasm for coaching had been taken from him. His players seemed to have stopped listening to his coaching, and the constant bickering of notorious malcontent Terrell Owens had to weigh on this extremely proud man. The Cowboys came up short of his expectations this season, and he deserved better than this at the end of a long and highly accomplished coaching career.
Enjoy your retirement Coach, and get ready for Canton. All New England Patriots fans appreciate everything you did for us.
When Parcells took over the Patriots’ head coaching duties in 1993, New England was the laughingstock of the League. The Patriots were mired in mediocrity, under a constant threat of relocation, and playing in a stadium that resembled a Texas high school football field. What Parcells brought to New England was a level of credibility that reached far beyond the limits most coaches could provide. He, along with Drew Bledsoe, helped to build a fan base that most never could have expected to exist. The Boston sports landscape always had the Patriots far below the Red Sox, Celtics and Bruins in the hierarchy. While Bill Belichick and Tom Brady are rightly considered the crown princes of the Patriots’ dynasty now, none of this would be possible without the work of Coach Parcells.
Even though he has often been thought upon as a coach who quickly grows tired of his environment and is always on the lookout for a new challenge, he is the only coach to lead four franchises to the post-season and he has always prided himself on leaving his former teams in much better shape then when he arrived. By his second year at each stop, Parcells always had his team in the post season.
This past year in Dallas really seemed to take a toll on the coach. Just watching him roam the sidelines, you could tell that much of his enthusiasm for coaching had been taken from him. His players seemed to have stopped listening to his coaching, and the constant bickering of notorious malcontent Terrell Owens had to weigh on this extremely proud man. The Cowboys came up short of his expectations this season, and he deserved better than this at the end of a long and highly accomplished coaching career.
Enjoy your retirement Coach, and get ready for Canton. All New England Patriots fans appreciate everything you did for us.
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