Dick Vermeil
Dick Vermeil
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Dick Vermeil

"It was an everyday thing. Like the sun going around the earth, he was going to cry." - Issac Bruce
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Dick Vermeil was the Super Bowl-winning head coach for the St. Louis Rams in 1999. A highly emotional person who’d cry while giving speeches and who welcomed his players to his home for dinner, Vermeil also coached the Eagles for seven seasons in the 1970s and 80s, and the Chiefs for five seasons in the 2000s; during both tenures, he posted a winning overall record. Born on October 30, 1936 in Calistoga, Calif., he was a backup quarterback at San Jose State in the 1950s. He and coaching legend Bill Walsh were both assistants at Stanford. Vermeil later became a head coach at UCLA, where he won a Rose Bowl, and then in the NFL. In 1980, he was named Coach of the Year, leading the Eagles into the Super Bowl. A tireless worker who’d sleep in his office and who once compared his practice routine to “Boot Camp,” a burned-out Vermeil quit pro football in 1982. Fifteen years later, he returned as coach of the Rams, where at age 63 Vermeil was again named Coach of the Year and became the oldest coach to win a Super Bowl (at the time).

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Melissa Etheridge
Melissa
Etheridge
Melissa Etheridge is a rock musician and singer-songwriter who has won multiple Grammy awards. She is a die-hard Chiefs fan who grew up in suburban Kansas City and was 9 when the team won its only Super Bowl; the thrill of that moment has remained with her for life. Prior to the 2019 AFC Championship Game at Arrowhead Stadium, she sang the national anthem.
Profession:
musician
Place of Birth:
Leavenworth, KS
Preferred Team:
Kansas City Chiefs
Dr. Oz
Dr.
Oz
Dr. Oz Is a surgeon, author, and TV personality whose talk show, “The Dr. Oz Show,” has won eight Daytime Emmy awards. The son of Turkish immigrants, Dr. Oz – born Mehmet Oz – played football in high school and later at Harvard, where he was a linebacker. He has said that football changed his life because it gave him confidence, and instilled in him positive values. Dr. Oz, who attended high school in Wilmington, Del. and whose in-laws live near Philadelphia, is a die-hard Eagles fan who has posted about the team on social media, including photos of himself in Eagles gear.
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celebrity
Place of Birth:
Cleveland, OH
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Philadelphia Eagles
Ron Jaworski
Ron
Jaworski
Ron Jaworski was a longtime starting NFL quarterback in the 1970s and 80s, primarily with the Eagles. The NFC Player of the Year in 1980 and a member of the Eagles Hall of Fame, Jaworski, nicknamed “Jaws,” later became a color commentator for Monday Night Football and an NFL analyst for ESPN. Jaworski was born and raised in the Buffalo area as a Bills fan. As a senior at Youngstown State in Ohio, he and some teammates drove to Buffalo and scalped tickets to a Bills – Jets game. He remembers watching Joe Namath throw – Jaworski had never seen a superstar player that close before – and the incident gave Jaworski confidence that he could throw like that too.
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reporter
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Lackawanna, NY