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Bum Phillips, the folksy Texas football icon who coached the Houston Oilers during their Luv Ya Blue heyday and also led the New Orleans Saints, died Friday. He was 90.
Bum Phillips, the folksy Texas football icon who coached the NFL’s Houston Oilers and New Orleans Saints, died Friday at his home in Goliad, Texas. He was 90 and had been in declining health.
In this Jan. 6, 1980, file photo, Houston Oilers coach Bum Phillips and running back Earl Campbell (34) leave field after the Oilers' loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers in the AFC championship game ...
No, when Bum Phillips moseyed into town in 1981 as the eighth head coach in Saints history, he was seen as a hero -- maybe even a savior. And goodness knows the team needed one.
Last Friday Bum Phillips died at the age of 90. He is remembered as the cowboy hat wearing, tobacco spitting, and folksy coach of the Oilers. In all obituaries written about Phillips his time as ...
I heard about Bum Phillips’s death on Friday night via a social media friend, who uploaded a classic photo—big white Stetson, powder-blue jacket—of the legendary former Houston Oilers coach ...
Bum Phillips' friends, colleagues and former players remembered him Saturday for his leadership, friendship and unparalleled ability to be, as one friend put it, "the most real thing in the room ...
Houston Oilers coach Bum Phillips shows the emotion that he shared with many of his players as they were welcomed by a crowd of more than 55,000 inside the Astrodome on Jan. 6, 1980 after losing ...
HOUSTON — Bum Phillips, the folksy Texas football icon who coached the Houston Oilers during their Luv Ya Blue heyday and later led the New Orleans Saints, died Friday. He was 90.
NEW YORK — Bum Phillips, the homespun Texan who was caricatured as a cowboy but possessed a keen football mind that built the Houston Oilers into one of the National Football League’s leading ...
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