BRH

His wife is a partner in a Dallas law firm and he's lived there for a long time, though he did carry clipboards in Miami and New York for awhile. I know it always takes a Princeton man to fix the messes made by Yale men, but do we really want another Ivy Leaguer as our coach?

None of the girls are in school in NC. The oldest already graduated from Princeton, the middle one graduates from there this year, and the youngest is a freshman at Wofford in South Carolina.

Fixed that for ya.

Well, he *has* hired Jimmy Johnson and Bill Parcells in the past; those could hardly be called "lackeys." Then again, there's Barry Switzer, Dave Campo, Chan Gailey, and Wade. Here's my take: as with Shanahan prostituting himself for Dan Snyder, if Cowher is the kind of guy who would take more money to work for Jerry Jones, then I don't want him here anyway. I don't think he's that kind of guy. I think he knows what he had in Dan Rooney and he's not going to go back to coaching just to work for an egotistical loudmouth who has to be involved in every decision and take credit for every success. (This is not to say that Ralph is a prince, but Ralph doesn't preen on the sidelines during games and make himself the face of the franchise.) I could be wrong, though, so I'm rooting for the Cowboys this weekend.

And why would he want to work for Jerry Jones?

To distract the mainstream media. Also, perhaps the coach they DO want to hire has let it be known that he wouldn't mind hiring Frazier as assistant HC/DC?

It's appropriate because all we've heard for the last few years is a giant sucking sound.

One can only hope

Anthony Gray. Would rip off huge gains in preseason and then get cut...apparently because he was dumber than a bag of rocks and couldn't pick up a blitz or run a route to save his life

Lawrence McCutcheon

Conrad Dobler

They were? In the seven years prior to Cowher's arrival in 1992, the Steelers went 7-9, 6-10, 8-7 (strike year), 5-11, 9-7, 9-7 and 7-9. Mediocrity. There's a reason you don't remember the Bills playing the Steelers in the playoffs during our little run until Cowher got to Pittsburgh: the Steelers weren't IN the playoffs for seven years in a row. The year before Cowher got there, Neil O'Donnell and Bubby Brister were throwing to Dwight Stone and Louis Lipps. (They did have a young Eric Green and a young Barry Foster.) They had a few kids on defense -- Rod Woodson, Carnell Lake, Greg Lloyd -- but none of them, save perhaps Woodson, had become what they would become under Cowher. When Cowher got there in 1992, the Steelers drafted Leon Searcy in the first round and Levon Kirkland in the second. That year, they started 10-3 (after not having won 10 games in any of the previous seven years, mind you), went 11-5, won the division and made the playoffs. His job was NOT to build on what was there. His job was to take a once-proud, then-stagnant franchise and breathe new life into it. That he did. Almost immediately, I might add.

Cleveland can't afford him after paying Holmgren. And no way Cowher would work for Al Davis.

As the great Mickey Rivers once said, "Ain't no sense worryin' 'bout things you got no control over, 'cause if you got no control over 'em, ain't no sense worryin'. And ain't no sense worryin' 'bout things you GOT control over, 'cause if you got control over 'em, ain't no sense worryin'."

Yeah, but it was apparently updated later to read "and that his insistence that he assemble and hire is entire coaching staff may have led to today's firings." So the story may have been posted at 6:35 am yesterday, but what did it say about the firings at that time, if anything? My guess is nothing.

You, sir, are a bastard.

Or maybe he just talked to Fewell after the press conference.

I'm only 40... but I know my history

That DOES change things a lot. Maybe Ralph told Buddy to fire everyone and then, as everyone was cleaning out their offices, he realized he was going to have to PAY all of them not to coach. "Buddy? This is Ralph. Forget what I said before. What did I say before? I forget. Oh yeah. Don't fire them all, just tell 'em they can look for new jobs. Just do it."

Wasn't Bebe Webozo a friend of Dick Nixon's?

"George Cata... Cata... can't-a work here anymore, anyway."

North Carolina, South Carolina.... close enough

Solid reporting.

Things DO change when the kids are out of the house. The oldest two daughters have graduated, the youngest is in college... hell, Mrs. Cowher doesn't even have to LIVE here anymore. Buffalo has regular flights to Charlotte.