When Bill Cowher stepped away from coaching after the 2006 season, many in the sports world viewed it as a sabbatical instead of a retirement. But Cowher never returned to an NFL sideline, instead keeping his job as a CBS Sports analyst. His decision not to return to coaching had nothing to do with opportunity. There were plenty of those. To hear Cowher tell it on Ben Roethlisberger’s latest Footbahlin podcast, of which Cowher was this week’s guest, he just didn’t want to coach anyone else but the Pittsburgh Steelers.
“I couldn’t come up to the grips of coaching another team,” Cowher said.