There are some records in sports that are just too good to ever think they will be broken. Joe Dimaggio got a hit in 56 straight games, no one has ever come close to eclipsing that mark. On the negative side, the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers lost all 14 of their NFL regular season games to establish the worst record in league history. Fortunately for them and the dubious record, two teams have had worst seasons.
After the NFL shifted to a 16-game regular season the 2008 Detroit Lions and 2017 Cleveland Browns both lost 16 straight contests. One of the NFL most amazing stats is that Kansas City’s Patrick Mahomes has a winning record in games his team trailed by double-digits. Mahomes and his Chiefs are 18-14 after trailing by ten points, including a 5 and 2 record in the postseason.
Here is an interesting NFL stat that is still waiting to be broken. No NFL Head Coach has ever won a Super Bowl with one franchise and gone on to lead another one to a Vince Lombardi Trophy capturing victory.
That’s right, when a team introduces a new coach at a press conference and references his Super Bowl win with a former team as a positive … well maybe it’s not. At least that is what history shows.
Vince Lombardi won the first two Super Bowls with the Green Bay Packers and failed in his one season with the Washington Redskins while compiling a 7-5-2 record in 1969. Bill Parcells and Mike Holmgren were the closest to winning with multiple franchises. Parcell’s won two titles with the New York Giants before leading the New England Patriots to Super Bowl XXXI, which resulted in a loss to the Packers. Parcells also guided the New York Jets and Dallas Cowboys into the playoffs in subsequent coaching stops, but no more Super Bowl appearances.
Mike Holmgren got the Green Bay Packers their first Super Bowl victory since the days of Lombardi to complete the 1996 season and led the Seattle Seahawks to Super Bowl XL which resulted in a loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Nick Sirianni became the 36th different head coach to have won a Super Bowl when he led the Philadelphia Eagles over the Kansas City Chiefs last February. Ten head coaches have gone on to coach with a different franchise after winning it all, they are Tom Flores, Mike Ditka, Parcells, George Seifert, Jimmy Johnson, Holmgren, Mike Shanahan, Doug Pederson, Pete Carroll and Sean Payton.
Two of the coaches serving another team after winning a Super Bowl are currently coaching in the NFL. Sean Payton led the New Orleans Saints to a win over the Indianapolis Colts to complete the 2009 season and Pete Carroll won it with the Seattle Seahawks over Peyton Manning and his Colts four years later.
Today, Payton is serving the Denver Broncos for a third season as head coach and led the team to the playoffs last season and appears to have a bright future in the Mile High City. Carroll is now the head man with the Las Vegas Raiders, in his first season in Sin City he appears to be in the initial stage of making the Silver and Black relevant.
Still, while the Dimaggio streak may never be broken, and the Mahomes winning record in games he trailed by ten points is amazing, the history of no coach leading a second franchise to a Super Bowl win seems destined to be broken.
Probably not this year.