Steve Spurrier, who was the University of Florida's first Heisman Trophy winner and later coached the Gators to six Southeastern Conference titles and the program’s first national title, is returning to football.
On Saturday, The Alliance of American Football, a new professional spring startup league set to debut in Orlando next February a week after the Super Bowl, announced Spurrier as its first coach of an as-yet unnamed Orlando team, CBS Sports reported.
Spurrier, born in Miami Beach 72 years ago, joined the Alliance's co-founder Charlie Ebersol and former NFL star Hines Ward, the executive director of player relations, on "CBS This Morning: Saturday.