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When Weeb Ewbank, Miami 1928, started his National Football League head coaching career with the 1954 Baltimore Colts. He was forty-seven, not the age you ordinarily look for in a rookie coach. But the popular Ewbank stayed in command for the next twenty years, the first nine in Baltimore and the final eleven with the New York Jets.
Apr 19, 2006 · GENERAL MANAGER. (1963-74) Weeb Ewbank is the only head coach in professional football history to build two teams from their inception into world champions and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame on July 29, 1978, the 11th coach to be enshrined in Canton. Upon his retirement from coaching in 1973, Ewbank's 130 wins ranked him fifth ...
Dec 29, 2008 · Ewbank had some reason to be paranoid. The Colts had spied on the Giants practices all week, and he feared revenge. Post-Game: Came back to haunt his former team in 1969, when as head coach of the New York Jets Ewbank guided his upstart AFL team, led by cocky quarterback and victory-guarantor Joe Namath, to a 16-7 upset of the mighty Colts.
May 22, 2013 · The Weeb Ewbank branch of the Paul Brown coaching tree is documented in the chart below, followed by a feature on Ewbank and short biographies of his many disciples.
Nov 18, 1998 · Hall of Fame Professional Football Coach. Inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1978, he guided the Baltimore Colts to the NFL title in 1958 and 1959. The Colts' sudden-death victory over the New York Giants in 1958 NFL Championship is considered the contest that ushered the sport into mainstreen America. He...
Aug 11, 2010 · Weeb Ewbank will be remembered by many for his friendly smile and jovial spirit in his later years. But there was clearly another face to Ewbank, not a mean coaching visage but a serious teaching look that he flashed in some photos from his early years as the Jets' football boss.
Jan 11, 2019 · Jets coach Weeb Ewbank congratulates quarterback Joe Namath with seconds left in Super Bowl III at the Orange Bowl in Miami on Jan. 12, 1969. The Jets upset the heavily favored Baltimore Colts, 16-7.
