Bloomington, Minn. — There are few settings more intense than the Super Bowl. And there were few coaches more intense than Bill Parcells. But when the two were combined, apparently, the result was less combustible and more chill.
“He was like the coolest, most calm guy,” former Giants center Bart Oates recalled on Thursday while making the rounds on Radio Row at Super Bowl LII. “Everyone kept looking at him like ‘Who is this guy?’ During the season he’s hard, he’s coaching hard, he’s working guys. In the Super Bowl he was like ‘I don’t have to say anything.