Mike McCormack
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Michael Joseph McCormack, Jr. (June 21, 1930 – November 15, 2013) was an American football player and coach in the National Football League (NFL).
He played with the Cleveland Browns from 1954 through 1962 and served as head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles, Baltimore Colts, and Seattle Seahawks.
He was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1984.
Playing career
McCormack played college football at the University of Kansas and hoped to work as a high school coach. In the 1951 NFL Draft, he was drafted by the New York Yankees in the third round but he had to wait until the third round before being accepted. He was conscripted into the US Army and served in the Korean War after the 1951 season ended. While he was away, the Yanks migrated to Dallas and became the Texans, which folded after just one season.
McCormack came home in 1954 to find that his team had ceased to exist, so he became a free agent and was immediately signed by the Baltimore Colts, a new franchise that was created the previous year to replace the defunct Yanks/Texans. Paul Brown, the Cleveland Browns founder, was not forgotten seeing McCormack play in his rookie season three years ago, and was sufficiently impressed that he was brought to the team as a result of a trade with Baltimore. In his first season with the Detroit Lions in 1954, he fought on the defensive line and then fumbled the ball out of Lions QB Bobby Layne's hands (in what the referees ruled as a fumble recovery) and helped with the game's crucial early touchdown.
He was moved to offensive tackle in the following season and helped the Browns win the NFL championship for the second time. He was instrumental in helping Jim Brown, the legendary running back, become one of the game's most popular players, retiring with six picks to the Pro Bowl.
"I think (Mike) McCormack) McCormack the best offensive tackle who ever played pro football," Paul Brown, a legendary Cleveland Browns founder, owner, and coach, wrote in his 1979 book, "I think (Mike) McCormack is the best offensive tackle ever played pro football." Also, according to Paul Zimmerman's book The New Thinking Man's Guide to Pro Football, Brown said that McCormack was the best offensive lineman he had ever coached. According to the book, McCormack "could do[c]overturn the Colts' Gino Marchetti to a greater degree than any other tackle in the game." The power of great intelligence and 4.8 mph are mated with a strong sense of humor. "I've seen him play games,' former NFL star and NFL executive Bucko Kilroy says, 'where if you were grading him, he'd score 100.' "My brother will never make a tackle, and he will never make a tackle," says the narrator.'
Coaching career
McCormack retired from playing in 1962 and began coaching for the first of four consecutive stints as an assistant in the annual College All-Star Game. He was hired as an assistant coach with the Washington Redskins in 1965 and spent the next eight seasons under four different head coaches, including former teammate Otto Graham from 1966-1968.
On January 17, 1973, McCormack was hired to replace Ed Khayat as the Philadelphia Eagles' head coach. He inherited a team that finished 1972 in the NFC East cellar at 2–11–1 and hadn't had a winning campaign since 1966. Following a 4–10 finish in the last year, three seasons and a 16–25–1 record later, he was sacked on December 22, 1975.
He was voted over Frank Kush and George Welsh to replace Ted Marchibroda as the Baltimore Colts head coach from 1976 to 1979. In each of the two seasons prior to McCormack's arrival, the ballclub finished in last place at 5–11. He was fired on December 21, 1981, and replaced by Kush the next day when the Colts went from 7–9 to 2–14 in 1980. "I wanted to be like my mentor, Paul Brown," McCormack said. He was a brilliant mentor and I tried to do the same, but I couldn't help myself, but my emotions led me away."
Administrative career
McCormack played for the Seattle Seahawks in 1982, and later became president and general manager. The Seahawks lost their first two games and then a 57-day player strike followed. Jack Patera, the seventh-year head coach, was suspended in mid-October, and McCormack took over as interim head coach during the hiatus. He led them to a 4-3 record, the only time he had a winning record as an NFL head coach, but Seattle did not qualify for the 16-team postseason. McCormack was back in his management role as the Seahawks recruited Chuck Knox as their new head coach in 1983 and turned down all offers to become a head coach.
He was abruptly fired by Ken Behring, the new Seahawks owner, in late January 1989, who explained that the decision was necessary in order to make reforms in the team's financial management. McCormack later that year, when Jerry Richardson and his investment group were attempting to find an NFL expansion franchise in Charlotte, North Carolina, they became a consultant. He was hired by the newly formed Carolina Panthers as both their team president and general manager in 1993, and their first season was 1995. In 1997, he retired from the Panthers organization, which also erected a monument in their stadium in honor of him.