shelby
10-26-2008, 08:00 AM
I tried. But regrettably, my attempts to reach Bill Parcells were unsuccessful. The Big Tuna doesn’t do interviews these days. You’d have better luck trying for a one-on-one with Osama Bin Laden. Parcells is the Dolphins’ executive vice president for football operations. It’s a fancy way of saying that anyone in the operation who doesn’t share Bill’s football philosophy is escorted to the nearest exit.
The man is too far up the football food chain to chit-chat with the peons in the media. A team spokesman said Parcells leaves that drudgery to the coaches and players. Parcells never relished the process, anyway, except when he was bullying some beat writer to fall into line. But he’s there, all right, overseeing the reconstruction of a once-great Miami franchise. As Giants coach, Parcells handed Buffalo its most painful loss in Super Bowl XXV. He ran the Patriots and the Jets. After an unremarkable run in Dallas, he’s back to torment us anew.
Parcells has now run the show for all
three of the Bills’ current rivals in the AFC East. Buffalo is the only town in the division that hasn’t been ennobled by the presence of football’s bombastic genius. It’s Hannibal Lecter, coming back for one more taste.
What better way to begin this three-week division caravan than by taking on Parcells’ gutted and refurbished Fish this afternoon? People said the rivalry faded when Don Shula, Dan Marino and Bryan Cox moved on, giving Buffalo fans no object for their communal loathing.
But with the Bills on the rise and Parcells lifting the Dolphins off the mat, Buffalo fans might sense some of the old animosity beginning to stir.
more... (http://www.buffalonews.com/sports/billsnfl/story/474418.html)
The man is too far up the football food chain to chit-chat with the peons in the media. A team spokesman said Parcells leaves that drudgery to the coaches and players. Parcells never relished the process, anyway, except when he was bullying some beat writer to fall into line. But he’s there, all right, overseeing the reconstruction of a once-great Miami franchise. As Giants coach, Parcells handed Buffalo its most painful loss in Super Bowl XXV. He ran the Patriots and the Jets. After an unremarkable run in Dallas, he’s back to torment us anew.
Parcells has now run the show for all
three of the Bills’ current rivals in the AFC East. Buffalo is the only town in the division that hasn’t been ennobled by the presence of football’s bombastic genius. It’s Hannibal Lecter, coming back for one more taste.
What better way to begin this three-week division caravan than by taking on Parcells’ gutted and refurbished Fish this afternoon? People said the rivalry faded when Don Shula, Dan Marino and Bryan Cox moved on, giving Buffalo fans no object for their communal loathing.
But with the Bills on the rise and Parcells lifting the Dolphins off the mat, Buffalo fans might sense some of the old animosity beginning to stir.
more... (http://www.buffalonews.com/sports/billsnfl/story/474418.html)