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| Jerry Glanville | ||
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| Sport | Football | |
| Born | October 14, 1941 | |
| Place of birth | Detroit, Michigan | |
| Career highlights | ||
| Overall | NCAA: 9-24 NFL: 63-73 |
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| Playing career | ||
| 1961-64 | Northern Michigan University | |
| Position | Linebacker | |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | ||
| 2007-2009 2005-2006 1990-1993 1986-1989 1984-1985 1983 1979-1982 1977-1978 1974-1976 1968-1973 1967 |
Portland State University University of Hawai'i, Defensive Coordinator Atlanta Falcons Houston Oilers Houston Oilers, Defensive Coordinator Buffalo Bills, Secondary Atlanta Falcons, Defensive Coordinator Atlanta Falcons, Secondary Detroit Lions, Defensive Assistant Special Teams Georgia Tech Defensive Ends/Outside Linebacker Coach Western Kentucky University Defensive Coordinator |
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| Born | October 14, 1941 | ||||||
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| Hometown | Detroit, Michigan | ||||||
| NASCAR Camping World Truck Series statistics | |||||||
| Best NCWTS position | 18th - 1995 (Craftsman Truck Series) | ||||||
| First race | 1995 Skoal Bandit Copper Classic (Phoenix) | ||||||
| Last race | 1999 Pennzoil/VIP Discount Auto Care 200 (Loudon) | ||||||
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Jerry Glanville (born October 14, 1941 in Detroit, Michigan) is a career American football coach. While at Northern Michigan University, Glanville played middle linebacker. In 1964, he graduated from Northern Michigan. Glanville has also worked as an analyst on HBO's Inside the NFL, CBS's The NFL Today/NFL on CBS and Fox's coverage of the NFL. Glanville also raced on the Auto Racing Club of America circuit.
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Coaching career
National Football League
During Glanville's time in the National Football League he was the special teams/defensive assistant for the Detroit Lions from 1974–1976, the secondary coach for the Atlanta Falcons from 1977–1978 and the Falcons defensive coordinator from 1979-1982, the secondary coach of the Buffalo Bills in 1983, the defensive coordinator of the then Houston Oilers from 1984-1985 and the Oilers head coach from 1986-1989, and head coach of the Atlanta Falcons from 1990-1993.
As an NFL head coach, Glanville was more famous for his antics and brash, outspoken personality than for his success on the field (his career record is 63-73). While coaching the Falcons, he regularly challenged and mocked opposing teams players on television and in interviews. He was also famous for often leaving tickets at will-call for the late Elvis Presley, wearing all black to be easily recognized by his players, and driving replicas of vehicles driven by James Dean.[1]
When Brett Favre was selected in the second round of the 1991 NFL Draft by Atlanta, Glanville did not approve and said it would take a plane crash for him to put Favre into a game.[2] Favre only threw four passes during his one season with Atlanta. After leaving Atlanta for Green Bay, Favre would go on to play 16 seasons, starting every game from September 20, 1992, to January 20, 2008[3], and becoming the first NFL player to win three AP MVP awards, a feat matched only once since.[4] He would also appear in two Super Bowls, winning Super Bowl XXXI.
College football
Glanville was formerly the defensive coordinator for the University of Hawaii's football team, working under his former coordinator at Atlanta, June Jones for two seasons. Prior to his tenure at the University of Hawaii, Glanville was the defensive ends/outside linebackers coach at Georgia Tech from 1968-1973 and the defensive coordinator at Western Kentucky University in 1967.
On February 28, 2007, he accepted the head coaching position at Portland State University, his first college head coaching job. Glanville, who replaced Tim Walsh, was PSU's 12th head coach in the history of the program. He resigned this position with the support of the university on November 17, 2009. [5] The Glanville era at PSU concluded with a record of 9-24.
In popular culture
The Sega Genesis system offered Jerry Glanville's PigSkin Footbrawl, a medieval-themed arcade-style football game. The game was a port of the 1990 classic arcade game Pigskin 621 A.D., released by Bally Midway.
Jerry appeared among the hosts of the pregame shows for Cartoon Network's annual Super Bowl parodies, The Big Game, from 1999 through 2001 - Tweety VS Sylvester in 1999, Wile E. Coyote VS Road Runner in 2000, and Bugs Bunny VS Daffy Duck in 2001. In the pregame picks for these games, he always picked the character who was not likely to win; surprisingly, in the Bugs VS Daffy game, he was correct in predicting that Daffy would win.
NASCAR career
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series
Jerry also had a brief career as the Owner/Driver of a black #81 Craftsman Truck Series from 1995 thru 1999, with a best finish of 14th four times. He finished 18th in the points in 1995 as his best points position of his career.
References
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Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Jerry Glanville |
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- ^ D'Amato, Gary (2005-10-24). "Trading places". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=358097. Retrieved 2007-02-08.
- ^ Jay Glazer (2008-08-06). "Packers trade Favre to Jets". Fox Sports on MSN. http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/8381934/Packers-trade-Favre-to-Jets. Retrieved 2008-08-06. "The month-long saga has finally come to an end, with the Packers agreeing to trade their future Hall-of-Fame quarterback to the New York Jets, FOXSports.com has learned."
- ^ McGinn, Bob (2005-11-05). "Year of great highs, lows". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=368529. Retrieved 2007-02-08.
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