Nice piece on Chuck Noll

[Smasher_Sloan]

From espn.com's Elizabeth Merrill:

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs2008/news/story?page=hotread19/chucknoll&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines

He's become Garbo-esque since he left coaching.

 

[markvid]

His health is a big reason for it.
He's really got some serious back issues.

 

[playthrough]

How refreshing, an old coach who doesn't need his face or voice plastered everywhere. Nor did he need it while he was coaching.

Good story.

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

Guys told me that Tony Dungy tried to call him the week the Colts were in the Super Bowl. He wanted to thank Noll for everything he did for him, including giving him his first break in coaching.

Mrs. Noll thanked him for the call, but wouldn't let him talk to Chuck.

 

[Simon_Cowbell]

LATROBE, Pa. -- There is nothing fancy about where the name went. At least it's spelled right. The words "Chuck Noll Field" hang neatly over a brick press box, two stories above the grass at Saint Vincent College. Noll would be happy about its simplicity. Twenty-three years in one job, and people in Pittsburgh still spell Noll's name with a "K." Maybe he never noticed. Chances are he didn't care.

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Can someone interpret the lead for me?

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

I guess he won't be taking any calls from Jerry Glanville, either.

 

[Simon_Cowbell]

He won't be on TV, unless it's a grainy old video of one of his unprecedented four Super Bowl titles, won't be mentioned among the all-time NFL coaching greats. His friends will say the snub is borne out of his desire for privacy. Noll didn't put himself out there, didn't parlay his success into a broadcasting career, and hence, the world carried on without him.
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As stupid a paragraph as I will read.

Noll is always on the short list.

Always.

Disingenuous, intellectually dishonest horse****.

He gets ALL the credit for building those teams, too, including the greatest draft of all time.

Christ ****ING sake. Embarrassing.

 

[DisembodiedOwlHead]

The only coach to win 4 SBs "won't be mentioned among the all-time NFL coaching greats" ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

 

[DisembodiedOwlHead]

Lot of BS, including this box: "Chuck Noll is the only NFL coach to win four Super Bowls. So why isn't this Steelers legend caught up in the fanfare, glory and national attention? That just isn't his style, writes Elizabeth Merrill."

So your participation in fanfare is in relationship to your Super Bowl titles? WTF?

 

[pallister]

He can't be a great coach if he never worked as a TV analyst.

 

[outofplace]

He can't be a great coach if he never worked as a TV analyst.

Does he get extra credit for guest directing an orchestra?

 

[pallister]

If it was nationally televised and he said stuff.

 

[outofplace]

There goes that idea. All I remember seeing was short clips on the local news.

 

[BYH]

Does it make me a bad man that I thought that was just not very good at all?

 

[93Devil]

Does it make me a bad man that I thought that was just not very good at all?

He was good.

He had great scouting and a great front office to work with, sure, but 4-0 in the big game does not come just by chance.

Gibbs, Shula, Landry, ****, they all lost at least one Super Bowl. I think Noll, Lombardi, Johnson and Walsh are the only ones who can say they never lost one in multiple trips.

 

[Boom_70]

*** that's a good story. Thanks for linking Smasher.

 

[markvid]

Does it make me a bad man that I thought that was just not very good at all?

He was good.

He had great scouting and a great front office to work with, sure, but 4-0 in the big game does not come just by chance.

Gibbs, Shula, Landry, ****, they all lost at least one Super Bowl. I think Noll, Lombardi, Johnson and Walsh are the only ones who can say they never lost one in multiple trips.

I think BYH meant the story wasn't all that good.

 

[BYH]

Mark is right.

Though Noll sucks too!

 

[markvid]

Catherine Baker Knoll?
Oh, wait, she's dead.

 

[BYH]

Actually I have no feelings one way or the other towards Noll. Just warming up for when Oz shows up, is all.