Jack Pardee
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John Perry Pardee (March 19, 1936 – April 1, 2013) was an American football linebacker and the first head coach to head a team in college football, the National Football League (NFL), the United States Football League (WFL), and the Canadian Football League (CFL).
In 1986, Pardee was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a student.
Personal life
Pardee was married for 50 years to Phyllis Lane Perryman and had five children and twelve grandchildren. Ted Pardee, Pardee's youngest son, is the color commentator for the Houston Cougars football radio broadcasts.
Pardee was diagnosed with gallbladder cancer in November 2012 and his family told him he only had six to nine months to live, and Pardee moved to a Denver hospice.
Pardee died on April 1, 2013. In Pardee's name at the University of Houston, the family has established a memorial scholarship fund. He was survived by his wife, Phyllis, five children, and 12 grandchildren. Payton Pardee's grandson is now a Tight Ends Coach at Texas A & M University-Commerce after playing Wide Receiver at the University of Houston. Luke Pardee, Jack's youngest grandson, is now a Quarterback at Texas Christian University.
Playing career
Pardee, a teen, moved to Christoval, Texas, where he excelled as a member of the six-man football team. He was an All-America Fullback at Texas A&M University and a two-time All-Pro with the Los Angeles Rams (1963) and the Washington Redskins (1971). He was one of the few six-man players to make it to the NFL, and his exposure of the wide-open game would help him as a coach.
Pardee was one of the famed Junction Boys, the 1954 Texas A&M preseason camp held in Junction, Texas, by football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant. He was one of the 35 people voted out of Junction from about 100 players. Pardee, who attended college at Texas A&M, was chosen as a linebacker in the 1957 NFL Draft as the 1st pick of the second round (14th overall) in the Los Angeles Rams' 1957 NFL Draft. Pardee was a footballer for the Rams from 1957 to 1970, but he missed the 1965 season to treat a malignant melanoma in his left arm.
During the first round of the 1971 NFL Draft, Pardee was traded from the Rams to the Redskins in a multi-player contract. He's retired after two seasons with the Redskins at the end of the 1972 NFL season.
Coaching career
Pardee took over as a World Football League coach with the Washington Ambassadors in 1974. The Virginia Ambassadors later moved to Norfolk, Virginia, before finally locating to their third and final home in Orlando as the Florida Blazers. The Blazers made it to the 1974 World Bowl but lost by a single point to the Birmingham Americans. Pardee's regular-season coaching career with the Blazers in 1974 WFL Playoffs and World Bowl was 14–6, and 2–1 in the 1974 WFL Playoffs and World Bowl. This was all the more surprising considering that the Blazers went unpaid for the first three months of the season. For the 1975 season, some of the Blazers players relocated to San Antonio, and Pardee joined the Chicago Bears as head coach.
Pardee was hired as the head coach by the Chicago Bears in 1975. He spent three years with Chicago, leading to their first playoff appearance in 1978 after heading to the Washington Redskins. In 1979, he led the Redskins to within one game of qualifying for the playoffs, but the Dallas Cowboys lost by 13 points in the season's last week, but the Dallas Cowboys, the eventual NFC East champions, failed to qualify for the playoffs. He was fired after going 6-10 in 1980. He was hired as an assistant head coach in charge of defense for the San Diego Chargers in 1981.
Pardee returned to Texas in 1984 by serving as the Houston Gamblers' head coach. The Gamblers played spring football in the United States Football League. With Jim Kelly as quarterback, the Gamblers had one of the most offensive offensive plays in pro football, the run-and-shool offense. In 1986, the Gamblers joined the New Jersey Generals, and Pardee was named head coach. The Generals were expected to dominate the USFL with Kelly and Doug Flutie both competing for the role of starting quarterback and Herschel Walker in the backfield, but the league was not established until 1986.
Pardee returned to Houston in 1987 as the University of Houston's head coach. The Cougars won the first African American quarterback award, Andre Ware, during his three-year tenure, using the same offense he coached in the United StatesFL. His team also became the first major college team to have over 1,000 total offensive yards in a single game, racking up 1,021 yards while defeating SMU, 95-21.
Houston was slapped with crippling NCAA fines due to a string of serious misconduct under Pardee's leadership, Bill Yeoman. The Cougars were barred from bowling in 1989 and 1990, among them, and 1989, they first broadcast live television. As a result, most of the country never had a chance to see the Cougars post multiple offensive records during the 1989 season.
Pardee took the run and shoot offense and hopped around town and back to the NFL by joining the Houston Oilers in 1990. He spent five years as an assistant coach in a team that made the playoffs each year for the first four years, led by Hall of Fame quarterback Warren Moon. The Oilers captured their first division title in the American Football League since 1967 in 1991. Pardee was lost to the Buffalo Bills in overtime to the eventual conference champions 41-38, during his time with the Oilers.
In 1993, the Oilers gained their second division title on the strength of winning their last 11 games. However, owner Bud Adams profited from a plea for a fire sale if they didn't make it to the Super Bowl after losing in the second round of the playoffs. Moon, who was traded to the Minnesota Vikings, was the highest-profile loss. The Oilers were a rudderless unit without Moon. Following a 1-9 start to the 1994 season, Pardee was fired, but defensive coordinator Jeff Fisher was brought on to the rescue.
He continued his coaching career in the Canadian Football League. He was appointed head coach of the Birmingham Barracudas' CFL Expansion team in 1995. Canadian football is more wide-open than American football, with a new 10 yard field added to each endzone, a 55 yard line, and a larger field. Pardee's roots in the six-man game made him a natural match, according to Birmingham owner Art Williams. The "Cudas" were part of a failed attempt to extend the CFL to the United States. Birmingham made the playoffs but lost in the first round to Matt Dunigan at quarterback. However, the 'Cudas were suspended at the start of the season and the league's refusal to encourage the team's relocation to Shreveport, Louisiana, for 1996.
Athletic director Dave Maggard contacted Pardee, then 71, in December 2007 about the University of Houston's open head coaching position. He went as far as a finalist for the position, signaling an interest, but the school moved forward with Oklahoma co-offensive coordinator Kevin Sumlin.