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Trivia for January 18, 2021

Question

Jon Gruden once won a Super Bowl against a team where he was formerly the head coach (when Tampa Bay beat Oakland in Super Bowl XXXVII). Who was the last person to do this as the conference level? That is, who was the last coach to direct a team to a conference championship against a team where he had previously served as a head coach?

Answer

Marv Levy. In January, 1994, Buffalo beat Kansas City 30-13 in the AFC Championship game. (Levy was the head coach in KC in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s.) Only one other coach has down this. At the end of the 1971 season, Don Shula helped the Miami Dolphins beat the Baltimore Colts 21-0.

3 Reader Comments:

Bruce Sadler

Lakeland, FL
2021-01-18T17:39:58Z
Was thinking Mike Holgrem Seattle vs Green Bay where the QB said we want to receive the ball and score to win the game

Tim McWilliams

Pittsburgh, PA
2021-01-18T22:13:32Z
I was thinking the same thing Bruce Sadler

Robert Ohrmund

Brown Deer, WI
2021-01-18T23:59:49Z
The question says "direct a team to the conference championship." That game between the Packers and Seahawks was just a regular playoff game. And Holmgren's Seahawks lost. Neither the Packers or the Seahawks won the conference championship that year. Also, both Gruden and Shula went from one team to the other via a trade.
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