George Perles won four Super Bowl rings in a decade as an assistant coach with the Steelers before he took the head coaching job at Michigan State University. Little did he know that his first recruit for the Spartans would be linked to his time in the NFL.
Yet nearly 35 years later, Perles is able to make the connection.
“He’s like another Chuck Noll,” Perles told Newsday this week, comparing presumed Giants head coach Pat Shurmur to the Hall of Fame coach of the Steelers. “Pat’s got a lot of Chuck Noll in him as far as I’m concerned.