The National Football League's Bill Parcells on winning, leading, and turning around teams

Abstract

Executive Overview Bill Parcells is a football legend. He has turned around three National Football League (NFL) teams, taking two of them to the Super Bowl and one to the American Football Conference (AFC) Eastern Division Championship. A recipient of 10 Coach of the Year Awards during his NFL career (1982-2000), he is considered one of the greatest coaches of all time, and is often compared to Vince Lombardi, legendary coach of the Green Bay Packers. Parcells's winning percentage is one of the highest in the history of professional football. Parcells transformed three NFL teams from losing teams to champions in record time. In eight years as head coach of the New York Giants (1983–1991). he led the Giants to Super Bowl victories in 1986 and 1990. After a two-year hiatus as a football analyst for NBC Sports, Parcells resurrected two more troubled NFL teams. As head coach of the New England Patriots (1993–1996) he took a team with a 1992 record of 2 wins and 14 losses and transformed it into a 1994 AFC pl...