From the time he stepped down as Pittsburgh Steelers’ head coach, it took Bill Cowher more than a decade for his final football stop. Canton, Ohio and the Pro Football Hall of Fame. When Cowher resigned from his position as Steelers’ head coach after the 2006 season, he thought he was resigning from his chance for football immortality, too. That’s what he revealed on Monday’s episode of Ben Roethlisberger’s Footbahlin podcast, where Cowher served as this week’s guest, and told the story of how he finally found out he was getting the golden jacket.
“When I left here, I thought I probably walked away from a Hall of Fame career,” Cowher told the show.