4.8 • 755 Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2022
⏱️ 73 minutes
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0:00.0 | Our thing is everybody, somebody. |
0:02.8 | And most people don't know how well they can do something until they really test themselves. |
0:09.6 | In 1976, Coach Dick Vermeale landed in Philadelphia. |
0:13.4 | The young coach was now responsible for one of the worst teams in the NFL. |
0:17.2 | Jimmy Murray said, coach, you come and turn this program more out, you'll be bigger than John |
0:21.1 | Wayne in Philadelphia. |
0:22.1 | That's what he says. |
0:23.1 | That's exactly what he said. |
0:25.1 | 46 years later, Coach Vermeal is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. |
0:30.1 | But Vermeil was not an overnight success. |
0:33.1 | This season on Return Game, Coach Vermeel, presented by NovaCare Rehabilitation, |
0:38.3 | we're taking you through the twist and turns of his legendary career. |
0:42.1 | We go back to the beginning, Hillsdale High School and UCLA. |
0:46.4 | First saw Dick Vermeal as our coach in the summer of 1960 for summer practices, |
0:53.6 | and it was obvious from the very beginning that this was going to be a new |
0:56.7 | experience players win games not coaches we were going into the rose bowl the biggest underdog |
1:03.6 | I think in the history of the rose bowl to his years with the philadelphia eagles that was a hostile |
1:08.9 | place the cowboys walked into I was taking my headset off. |
1:12.4 | You know, the game is over. |
1:13.5 | I'm like this. |
1:14.4 | And all of a sudden, all hell breaks loose. |
1:16.7 | And I can remember Coach Remil on the sideline, walking up the guys and hugging them and |
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