...benefit of being (mostly) true. In 1976, at the start of his first year as the Philadelphia Eagles' head coach, Dick Vermeil issued an open call to anyone who wanted to try out for the team. Hundreds showed up. One guy made it: Vince Papale...

...benefit of being (mostly) true. In 1976, at the start of his first year as the Philadelphia Eagles' head coach, Dick Vermeil issued an open call to anyone who wanted to try out for the team. Having lost the last game of the previous dismal...

...NFL after being passed over by personnel directors and general managers. So who will be this year's Priest Holmes? Dick Vermeil, for one, doesn't pretend to have the answer. "You'd like to believe that we're all smart enough to draft...

Bill Parcells failed. Dan Reeves, Dick Vermeil and Don Shula never had the chance. Now Mike Holmgren has taken a second franchise to a Super Bowl. Can he become the only coach...

...Shula was the first with Baltimore and Miami. The others are: Bill Parcells (New York Giants and New England), Dick Vermeil (Philadelphia and St. Louis) and Dan Reeves (Denver and Atlanta). No coach has ever won a Super Bowl with two...

...Haslett of New Orleans were canned. They join Mike Tice of Minnesota, fired after the Vikings' final game Sunday, and Dick Vermeil of Kansas City, who retired at the age of 69. With the firing of Detroit's Steve Mariucci in November, that brings...

...plans to be their coach. No one seems to be listening. Speculation started anew about his status when Chiefs coach Dick Vermeil said earlier this week Edwards should be coach of the year for the way he has handled his injury-riddled 3-12 team...

...New England Patriots 9 Duane Starks' injury might help improve the secondary's play 15. Kansas City Chiefs 18 Dick Vermeil's call could be the thing that spurs a playoff push 16. Philadelphia Eagles 14 Their problems run deeper than the...

...shoulder and a history of ankle problems, neither Bell nor the Chiefs seem eager to seek out collisions just yet. Dick Vermeil seems as frustrated as anyone when answering daily questions about Bell's impending Kansas City debut. On Wednesday...

...game. After the game, Mora already was working on his positive spin when he met his longtime friend, Chiefs coach Dick Vermeil, at midfield. "He said 'Hey, I'm sorry,' " Mora said. "I said 'Hey, that might have been good for us...