Jan 23 2007
Cowboys Coach Bill Parcells Retires…Again
The Dallas Cowboys are looking for a new head coach this morning thanks to the announced retirement of Bill Parcells:
Bill Parcells resigned as coach of the Dallas Cowboys Monday after a bitterly disappointing playoff loss to the Seattle Seahawks.
Parcells, 65, compiled a 34-30 regular season record with the Cowboys over his four years but was 0-2 in the playoffs.
“I am in good health and feel lucky to have been able to coach in the NFL for an extended period of time,” Parcells said in a statement on the team’s Web site (www.dallascowboys.com).
“I leave the game and the NFL with nothing but good feelings and gratitude to all the players, coaches and other people that have assisted me in that regard.”
Why stop now when you were on the verge of playoff success, you have a new Pro Bowl quarterback in Tony Romo, and you have the loudest mouth in the league in TO?
Parcells is at the point in his life where six weeks off a year just isn’t enough, particularly when he lives 1,400 miles from the part of the world he loves the most — the New Jersey/New England/Upstate New York area. The football demands on his time are too great.
“It’s time,” he said Monday afternoon from his office at Valley Ranch. “It’s a young man’s game. I’m in good health, but it’s time to give someone else a chance. I’m looking forward to whatever life has in store for me, and right now I have no idea what that is.”
OK. You’ve earned it.
How long will it be before Jerry Jones names himself has head coach? Anyone taking bets on that?
Texas Fred’s: Well, if Jerry Jones would step down, sell the team, pass away or whatever and Terrell Owens was canned for the asshat troublemaker he IS, I might consider being a Cowboys fan again…
Best Week Ever: Today, Bill Parcells retired, making Romo’s botched snap the final play he’ll ever see from the sidelines.
A Blog for All: His legacy with the Cowboys isn’t nearly as good as his tenure with the Patriots or Giants. Expect questions to swirl over whether Terrell Owens had anything to do with his decision to resign and other coaching candidates will have to deal with an overbearing owner who styles himself as general manager as well.
Ed Driscol.com: Parcells’ four years with the Cowboys produced three out of four winning seasons, but during each of those years, his teams tended to fade in December, unlike his best Giants teams, which surged into the last month of the regular season–and beyond.
January 23rd, 2007 at 3:26 pm
The Sarcastic Idiocy Forum suggest that Terrell Owens’ grandmother should indeed be the next coach of the Dallas Cowboys.
http://www.thesif.net/SIF/index.php?