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Here's Marv as Cal's head coach with a young assistant named Bill Walsh in 1960.


1 posted on 08/03/2025 12:52:11 PM PDT by DFG
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Great guy, great life! Wonderful that he is still with us. I honestly didn't know. Truly one of the all time great coaches.

2 posted on 08/03/2025 12:54:43 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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Here’s Marv as Cal’s head coach with a young assistant named Bill Walsh in 1960.


Mike White, too. He coached the Chuck Muncie era at Cal and later the Raiders.


3 posted on 08/03/2025 12:55:35 PM PDT by lodi90
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(William & Mary (1964–1968)

Head coach)

Oh, no.

That won’t do.

That will be the day that
I move back to Annadale


4 posted on 08/03/2025 12:58:24 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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Great times in Buffalo. “We’re # 2!”

Do you know the difference between a dollar bill and a Buffalo Bill? You get 4 quarters from a dollar bill

Go Bills!

5 posted on 08/03/2025 12:59:28 PM PDT by FatherofFive (We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor)
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I read that as Marcy Levy at first. Didn’t think she was that old!


7 posted on 08/03/2025 1:04:46 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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He landed in the college ranks with Coe in 1953.

Marv Levy invited another Coe College grad, Fred Jackson, to Bills training camp in 2006, when Jackson was 26, which is already considered old in the NFL. Jackson had played for a few seasons in the US indoor football league, and even played in German Football league.

Fred Jackson was a straight-ahead runner who ran at the spot where the play dictated there would be a hole. He didn't juke and jive much, but with his speed and power, often got through to the second level. in 2007 Jackson ran for >1000 yards. Jackson played on the Bills for another 8 years.

Levy still praises Jackson as his "Coe College find" and also for being a great character individual and family man - which is all true.

8 posted on 08/03/2025 1:06:04 PM PDT by PGR88
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There are few people who are as LOVED in Buffalo as Marv Levy.


10 posted on 08/03/2025 1:13:53 PM PDT by fhayek
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My very first NFL game was when Levy was coaching the Chiefs. Back in the dark years. 3 yards and a cloud of dust.


12 posted on 08/03/2025 3:15:57 PM PDT by Salvavida
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Probably the only head coach in NFL history with a bachelor’s in literature and a master’s in history.


13 posted on 08/03/2025 3:22:34 PM PDT by untenured
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