NFL Coaches Quiz — 7 Free Questions

Question 1

In the late 1950s the New York Giants had a future Hall of Famer running each side of the ball: Vince Lombardi on offense and this man, a former defensive back, on defense. He left to become the first head coach of an expansion team in Dallas and built a dynasty there. Which coach is this?

Question 2

Two men share the record for most consecutive seasons coaching a single franchise, 29 apiece: the founder of the Green Bay Packers, and the man who was the Dallas Cowboys' only head coach from their 1960 birth through 1988. Which of the two led the Cowboys for that entire span?

Question 3

This coach won six Super Bowls and reached nine, all with one franchise over 24 seasons, and holds the record for playoff wins by a head coach. His first head job, in Cleveland, ended with a losing record and a firing. Which coach is this?

Question 4

This coach won Super Bowl IV and was wired for sound by NFL Films that day, narrating his own play calls with lines like 'matriculate the ball down the field.' He led one franchise from the AFL's founding through the mid-1970s. Which coach is this?

Question 5

A Harvard-educated coach fond of the question 'where would you rather be than right here, right now,' this man led one franchise to four straight Super Bowls in the early 1990s, losing all four. Which coach is this?

Question 6

Among head coaches with at least 100 career wins, this man has the highest regular-season winning percentage, .759, achieved across just 10 seasons with one team, none of them a losing one. He walked away at 42, burned out, and became a broadcaster. Which coach is this?

Question 7

Known for crying on the sideline and for burning out and quitting in 1982, this coach returned 15 years later and won a Super Bowl with a high-scoring offense nicknamed for its artificial turf. He took three franchises to the playoffs. Which coach is this?

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About NFL Coaches

The head coach is the face of an NFL franchise, and a handful of them have defined whole eras. George Halas and Curly Lambeau were founder-owner-coaches who built the league itself. Paul Brown professionalized the job with playbooks, film study and messenger plays, then did it twice, in Cleveland and Cincinnati. Vince Lombardi turned Green Bay into a dynasty and won the first two Super Bowls, and the trophy now carries his name.

The record book belongs to a small group. Don Shula won 347 games and coached the only perfect season. Bill Belichick won six Super Bowls and reached nine, both records, and has the most playoff wins. Chuck Noll won four titles in the 1970s and never a Coach of the Year award. George Seifert and John Madden posted the best winning percentages, and Andy Reid became the winningest active coach while building a coaching tree that now spans the league.

Not every great coach got the ring. Marv Levy lost four straight Super Bowls with Buffalo, Bud Grant four with Minnesota, and Dan Reeves four with two franchises. Marty Schottenheimer won 200 games but went 5-13 in January, and Jeff Fisher lost more games than anyone while reaching just one Super Bowl, by a single yard.

The firsts matter too. Fritz Pollard was a Black head coach in 1921, more than 60 years before Art Shell broke through in the modern era. Tom Flores was the first Hispanic head coach to win a Super Bowl, Tony Dungy the first Black one, and the Rooney Rule, named for a Pittsburgh owner, reshaped how the jobs are filled. This quiz runs through 60 clues on the coaches, their records and their milestones: name the man on the headset, and get the full story after each answer.