Bill Parcells Biography

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NAME: Bill Parcells
OCCUPATION: Coach
BIRTH DATE: August 22, 1941 (Age: 71)
EDUCATION: Colgate University, Wichita State
PLACE OF BIRTH: Englewood, New Jersey
Originally: Duane Charles Parcells
ZODIAC SIGN: Leo

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Bill Parcells is best known for his long NFL coaching career, with a keen ability to turn around losing teams.

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Despite the team's 1-15 record in the season before his arrival, Parcells managed to guide the Jets as far as the conference title game in 1998. After relinquishing his Jets coaching duties in 1999, Parcells vowed not to coach again. But he again failed at retirement, agreeing to take over the Dallas Cowboys in 2003. The coach still had his turn-around magic; after enduring three straight 5-11 seasons before Parcells' arrival,

the Cowboys reached the playoffs with a 10-6 record in the coach's first year on the job.

Retirement

In January 2007, Parcells announced his resignation from the Cowboys and (yet again) his retirement from coaching football. This time, he actually seemed to mean it. Parcells left the Cowboys a 183-138-1 career record and the distinction of being the only coach in NFL history to lead four different teams to the playoffs. Only eight other coaches have won more games from NFL sidelines.

Perhaps predictably, Parcells could not stay completely away from the gridiron. By late 2007, he had agreed to become Executive Vice President of Football Operations for the Miami Dolphins, a role that essentially made him manager of the team's coaches. The jobs fulfilled a promise to himself, Parcells said, that he would shape other coaches' football vision the way that mentors like Al Davis, Tom Landry and Chuck Knox shaped his own.

Football, more than anything else, has defined Bill Parcells as a person. "It's not just another job," he has said. "It's my life."