Most people are unaware that
every coach who ever won a Super Bowl coached directly under, or under coaches
who coached under Sid
Gillman, Paul Brown
and Steve
Owen, except 3 coaches. These 3 men
I call the Super Bowl Godfathers.
When I created the first NFL Laptop Playbook System
Called ‘Game Prep’, I
researched the legacy of every Super Bowl winning coach, and was astounded
by this very fact.
Super
Bowl – Wining Head Coach (God Father)
Super Bowl I – Vince
Lombardi (Steve Owen)
Super Bowl II – Vince
Lombardi (Steve Owen)
Super Bowl III – Weeb Ewbank
(Paul Brown)
Super Bowl IV – HANK STRAM*
Super Bowl V – Don
McCafferty (Steve Owen)
Super Bowl VI – Tom Landry
(Steve Owen)
Super Bowl VII – Don Shula
(Paul Brown)
Super Bowl VIII – Don Shula
(Paul Brown)
Super Bowl IX – Chuck Noll
(Paul Brown & Sid Gillman)
Super Bowl X – Chuck Noll
(Paul Brown & Sid Gillman)
Super Bowl XI – John Madden
(Sid Gillman)
Super Bowl XII – Tom Landry
(Steve Owen)
Super Bowl XIII – Chuck Noll
(Paul Brown & Sid Gillman)
Super Bowl XIV – Chuck Noll
(Paul Brown & Sid Gillman)
Super Bowl XV – Tom Flores
(Sid Gillman)
Super Bowl XVI – Bill Walsh
(Paul Brown & Sid Gillman)
Super Bowl XVII – Joe Gibbs
(Sid Gillman)
Super Bowl XVIII – Tom
Flores (Sid Gillman)
Super Bowl XIX – Bill Walsh
(Paul Brown & Sid Gillman)
Super Bowl XX – Mike Ditka
(Steve Owen)
Super Bowl XXI – Bill
Parcels (Paul Brown)
Super Bowl XXII – Joe Gibbs
(Sid Gillman)
Super Bowl XXIII – Bill
Walsh (Paul Brown & Sid Gillman)
Super Bowl XXIV – George
Seifert (Paul Brown & Sid Gillman)
Super Bowl XXV – Bill
Parcels (Paul Brown)
Super Bowl XXVI – Joe Gibbs
(Sid Gillman)
Super Bowl XXVII – JIMMY
JOHNSON**
Super Bowl XXVIII – JIMMY
JOHNSON**
Super Bowl XXIX – George
Seifert (Paul Brown & Sid Gillman)
Super Bowl XXX – BARRY
SWITZER***
Super Bowl XXXI – Mike
Holmgren (Paul Brown & Sid Gillman)
Super Bowl XXXII – Mike
Shanahan (Paul Brown & Sid Gillman)
Super Bowl XXXIII – Mike
Shanahan (Paul Brown & Sid Gillman)
Super Bowl XXXIV – Dick
Vermeil (Sid Gillman)
Super Bowl XXXV – Brian
Billick (Paul Brown & Sid Gillman)
Super Bowl XXXVI – Bill
Belichick (Paul Brown)
Super Bowl XXXVII – Jon
Gruden (Paul Brown & Sid Gillman)
Super Bowl XXXVIII – Bill
Belichick (Paul Brown)
Super Bowl XXXIX – Bill
Belichick (Paul Brown)
Super Bowl XL – Bill Cowher
(Paul Brown)
Super Bowl XLI – Tony Dungy
(Paul Brown & Sid Gillman)
Super Bowl XLII – Tom Coughlin
(Paul Brown)
Super Bowl XLIII – Mike
Tomlin (Paul Brown & Sid Gillman)
Super Bowl XLIV – Sean
Payton (Paul Brown)
Super Bowl XLV – Mike
McCarthy (Paul Brown & Sid Gillman)
Super Bowl XLVI – Tom
Coughlin (Paul Brown)
Super Bowl XLVII – John
Harbaugh (Paul Brown & Sid Gillman)
Super Bowl XLVIII – Pete
Carroll (Paul Brown & Sid Gillman)
Super Bowl XLVIV – Bill
Belichick (Paul Brown)
* Hank Stram never
previously coached in the NFL before becoming the Head Coach of the Dallas
Texans, which was later named the Kansas City Chiefs. He won Super Bowl IV as the Head Coach of the
Kansas City Chiefs.
** Jimmy Johnson never previously coached in the
NFL before becoming the Head Coach of the Dallas Cowboys. He won Super Bowl XXVII and XXVIII as the
Head Coach of the Dallas Cowboys.
*** Barry Switzer never previously coached in the
NFL before becoming the Head Coach of the Dallas Cowboys. He won Super Bowl XXX as the Head Coach of
the Dallas Cowboys.
Ron Rivera, who is the Carolina Panther’s Head Coach,
is a descendant of Bill
Walsh’s coaching tree, which means he is a coaching descendant of both Sid
Gillman and Paul Brown. Gary Kubiak, who
is the Denver Bronco’s Head Coach, is a descendant of Tom
Landry’s coaching tree, which means he is a coaching descendant of Steve
Owen. Coincidently, both coaches are descendants of all 3 Super Bowl Godfathers, which is why I gave them the title.
~ Kai D. Patterson, Creator of the NFL’s Game Prep
