5 worst coaches to win the Super Bowl
By John Buhler
Not every head coach that wins the Super Bowl belongs in Canton. Here are the five worst head coaches to hoist a Lombardi Trophy by winning the Super Bowl.
In the 50 years of the Super Bowl era in the National Football League, there have been dozens of Hall of Fame caliber head coaches roaming the sidelines in the biggest games of their lives. Fine coaches like Vince Lombardi, Tom Landry, Joe Gibbs, Bill Walsh, Bill Parcells, Chuck Noll, Mike Shanahan, and Bill Belichick are a few of the many Super Bowl coaches to have won at least two trophies on Super Bowl Sunday.
However, there are some years where it is a great team, not a great head coach, that ultimately wins a Super Bowl. While both the Carolina Panthers’ Ron Rivera and the Denver Broncos’ Gary Kubiak did great work in 2015 to get their respective teams to a Super Bowl, neither one is viewed as a top 10 coach in the NFL today. Super Bowl 50 saw Kubiak’s Broncos win its third Lombardi Trophy in eight tries in franchise history.
In time, perhaps either or both Rivera and Kubiak will emerge as a Canton-worthy NFL head coach, but entering the 2016 NFL season, neither one stands out as an all-timer coaching on the sidelines of a championship caliber team.
Since many may now view Kubiak as one of the worst coaches to have won a Super Bowl, let’s see who are the five worst coaches to have ever hoisted a Lombardi Trophy as a Super Bowl champion.
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