They passed one another in the coaching hierarchy without much fanfare in this area of the football country. The San Francisco 49ers fired Jim Tomsula after one year as their head coach. The New York Giants hired Ben McAdoo as the 18th head coach for their 92nd season.
One more native Western Pennsylvanian down among NFL head coaches, another added. It has become so routine that it no longer attracts much notice in the region in which these men grew up.
Tomsula, a West Homestead native from Steel Valley High School, was the latest in a long list of natives from the Pittsburgh area to become an NFL head coach when the 49ers promoted him a year ago.