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| Another Super Bowl win may give Proehl reason to retire |
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01/30/2007 |
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| endon, is in the Super Bowl for the fourth time. Based on how he was talking Tuesday at media day, this one is probably his last. ``I'd like to be Jerome Bettis. Play this game, win and ride off into the sunset,'' Proehl said, referring to how the Pittsburgh Steelers' star retired after his team won last season's Super Bowl. ``Seventeen years is a long time. I'm ready to enjoy my family and go on to the next stage in my life.'' Proehl won a Super Bowl ring in 1999 with the St. Louis Rams and said he turned dow |
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| Steelers promote two coaches, add six new members to staff |
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01/29/2007 |
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| Pittsburgh, PA (MySportsbook) - The Pittsburgh Steelers announced Monday that the team has promoted two coaches and added six new members to the staff. Former wide receivers coach Bruce Arians has been promoted to offensive coordinator. Arians will step in for Ken Whisenhunt, who took over as head coach of the Arizona Cardinals. The Steelers finished this past season with the seventh-ranked total offense. Arians joined the Steelers as wide receivers coach in 2004 after serving as Cleveland's offensive coordinat |
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| Dungy overcomes tragedy to seek his first ring |
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01/29/2007 |
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| Doug Williams, who 19 years ago became the first black quarterback in a Super Bowl. He was referring to Jerry Reese's appointment as general manager of the New York Giants, the conference championship wins, and Mike Tomlin's hiring as coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Dungy is hardly the prototypical coach - he's usually stoic on the sideline, as he had been in dealing with his son's death. After the Colts beat New England to win the AFC championship, he pointedly noted that coaches don't have to encourage pro |
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| Brees hoping to see Manning get a Super Bowl ring |
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01/29/2007 |
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| actor/musician LL Cool J, NFL stars Reggie Bush, Warren Sapp and Edgerrin James, and country music artists Rascal Flatts. ---PLAYER SHARES: Each member of the winning team at this year's Super Bowl receives $78,000, or $5,000 more than each of the Pittsburgh Steelers received after winning last season's championship. The losing team gets $40,000 apiece, or $2,000 more than Seattle got after the 2006 Super Bowl. ---DA U: The Bears are practicing this week at the University of Miami, which is known by most col |
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| Steelers hire 2 special teams coaches as Tomlin finalizes staff |
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01/29/2007 |
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PITTSBURGH (AP) -Mike Tomlin apparently intends to make special teams a priority in his first season as the Pittsburgh Steelers' coach. Tomlin completed his first staff Monday by hiring five new coaches, including Bob Ligashesky as the special teams coach and Amos Jones as Ligashesky's assistant. Also added were wide receivers coach Randy Fichtner, running backs coach Kirby Wilson and offensive line coach Larry Zierlein. Tomlin, hired last week, retained six members of Bill Cowher's final staff - includin |
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| Dungy's humble ways took root in hometown of Jackson |
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01/28/2007 |
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| son Parkside. ``I was his football coach in the seventh, eighth and ninth grades, and he always wanted to play defense. But I said, 'No, you're my quarterback,''' former Frost Huskies coach Dick Johnson said. ``Then, he goes into the pros with the Pittsburgh Steelers as a defensive halfback. That shows you what I knew, but I did know enough that I let him call his own plays when he was a seventh-grader because he was so smart. ``I can't say I predicted that he would become an NFL coach, but I'm not surprised, |
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| Dungy's humble ways took root in hometown of Jackson, Mich. |
NFL Football |
01/28/2007 |
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| son Parkside. ``I was his football coach in the seventh, eighth and ninth grades, and he always wanted to play defense. But I said, 'No, you're my quarterback,''' former Frost Huskies coach Dick Johnson said. ``Then, he goes into the pros with the Pittsburgh Steelers as a defensive halfback. That shows you what I knew, but I did know enough that I let him call his own plays when he was a seventh-grader because he was so smart. ``I can't say I predicted that he would become an NFL coach, but I'm not surprised, |
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| Colts enjoying long-awaited ride to Super Bowl |
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01/27/2007 |
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| t?' You want to soak up every minute, every day.'' Past disappointments for the Colts have given them perspective on their accomplishment. The Colts were expected to reach the Super Bowl last season but lost their first playoff game at home to the Pittsburgh Steelers, then watched the Steelers win the championship. This year, the Colts beat the New England Patriots 38-34 in the AFC championship after losing to the Patriots in the playoffs after the 2003 and 2004 seasons. Now that they're finally going to the b |
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| Franco Harris says Tomlin hiring shows NFL's racial progress |
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01/26/2007 |
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PITTSBURGH (AP) -Franco Harris remembers the day it would have been a big deal that the Pittsburgh Steelers hired a black coach. When Harris reported to the Steelers as a rookie running back from Penn State in 1972, black assistant coaches were uncommon in the NFL. Starting quarterbacks and middle linebackers were almost exclusively white. And there wouldn't be a black head coach for another 17 seasons. This week, the only negative rumblings Harris detected in Pittsburgh about new Steelers coach Mike Tomlin |
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| Colts get advice from a few Super Bowl winners |
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01/25/2007 |
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| All have at least one Super Bowl ring. Even longtime Colts assistants like offensive line coach Howard Mudd and running backs coach Gene Huey have never dealt with the buildup into February. Dungy went to one Super Bowl, as a a backup on the 1978 Pittsburgh Steelers that beat Dallas. But the magnitude of the game has increased so much in the nearly three decades since Dungy's last trip, that he thought it was better those who have been there more recently deliver the super speeches. ``It's a three-ring circ |
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