Legendary coach Bill Curry on faith, football and playing in the first Super Bowl
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 684 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Bill Curry is a two-time Super Bowl champion who played 10 seasons in the NFL with the Packers, Colts, Oilers and Rams. He participated in Super Bowl I, III and V and played for legendary coaches Vince Lombardi and Don Shula.
As a coach, Curry was the head football coach at Georgia Tech, Alabama and Kentucky, winning the 1989 Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year award.
Today we talk to Bill Curry about Super Bowl 56, what it was like playing in the first ever Super Bowl, the faith of Vince Lombardi and his final NFL season in 1974 as a member of the Los Angeles Rams.
WATCH a special Super Bowl edition of Sports Spectrum's "Weekly Slant" with Bill Curry, Nick Foles and Dan Orlovsky here.
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