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  • October 30, 2015 at 1:22 am #33210
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    NFL Network to showcase Vermeil’s career

    Dan Caesar

    http://www.stltoday.com/sports/football/professional/nfl-network-to-showcase-vermeil-s-career/article_e9d9f182-8b24-5b40-b81a-a13108657040.html

    Dick Vermeil, who coached the Rams to their storybook Super Bowl victory in the 1999 season at preseason odds of more than 200-1, is the focus of latest edition of NFL Network’s “A Football Life” documentary series.

    The show is set to debut at 8 p.m. Friday and focuses on his entire career, much of which his success was based in part on emotion, and is narrated by actor Josh Charles.

    Among the highlights in addition to his stint with the Rams:

    • Leading UCLA to the 1975 Rose Bowl.

    • Leaving UCLA to coach the Philadelphia Eagles.

    • His emotional “burnout” that led to him to leave coaching for 14 years

    Among those interviewed are Marshall Faulk, Kurt Warner and Trent Green, who played under Vermeil with the Rams, plus assistant coaches Mike Martz and Wilbert Montgomery.

    “Regardless of what he’s doing, he’s coaching people,’’ Warner says. “That’s what he does and that’s who he is. He never stops working.”

    Vermeil never won a championship with the Eagles, coming closest in the 1980 season when they lost to the Raiders in the Super Bowl. Ron Jaworski quarterbacked that team and said that when Vermeil reached the pinnacle with the Rams, his old Eagles troops were along for the ride.

    “A lot of the players from the ‘80 team lived vicariously through Dick Vermeil and when he had won that Super Bowl, we felt like we won the Super Bowl,’’ Jaworski said. “We were that proud of him.”

    The program is to be repeated numerous times, including at 11 p.m. Friday and 7 p.m. Wednesday.

    October 30, 2015 at 12:46 pm #33229
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    A Football Life.

    NFL Films and NFL Network have done a very decent job with this series.

    I’ve changed my view on many NFL people because of this series (Jerry Rice, Al Davis, and Sean Taylor)

    30 for 30 (ESPN) is also very good… changed my view on Maurice Clarett and the Fab Five from Michigan basketball

    I look forward to watching this show on Vermeil. I was totally bummed out when the Rams hired Vermiel…. Rams lost out on Pete Carroll and George Seifert… no decent HC wanted to come to STL to replace Rich Brooks… The Rams were not a well run franchise at that time, they were a friggin mess when Vermeil took over….. Same with the Eagles when he took over in Philly…..

    I love DV.

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