Former NFL Super Bowl-winning Head Coach William “Bill” Laird Cowher was born May 8, 1957 in Crafton, Pennsylvania. When he was in high school, he excelled in football, basketball and track. During his time at North Carolina State University, he became a linebacker, team captain and team MVP in his senior year. In 1979 he graduated with a degree in education. In the same year, he became a free-agent linebacker with the Philadelphia Eagles and then signed with the Cleveland Browns a year later. He played three seasons in Cleveland before being traded back to the Eagles with which he stayed for two more years. In 1985, Cowher started coaching under Marty Schottenheimer and became the Browns' special teams coach and later on secondary coach. On January 21, 1992 he became the fifteenth head coach in Steelers history, replacing Chuck Noll. Fourteen years later, Cowher's Pittsburgh Steelers won Super Bowl XL, thus giving him his first Super Bowl ring. A year later he resigned and joined Dan Marino, Shannon Sharpe and Boomer Esiason as a studio analyst on the NFL Today. In 2007 Cowher was cast for the new ABC reality series, Fast Cars and Superstars: The Gillette Young Guns Celebrity Race.
Bill Cowher appears on Fast Cars and Superstars: The Gillette Young Guns Celebrity Race, the new ABC reality series. The show features eleven other celebrities in a stock car racing competition. Cowher is set up to compete against Gabrielle Reece and William Shatner.
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