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Please either enable it in your browser options, or visit your preferences to switch to the old MediaWiki editor {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2013}} {{Infobox college coach | name = Jack Pardee | image = Jack Pardee as Houston Cougars head football coach.jpg | caption = Pardee as head coach of the [[Houston Cougars football|Houston Cougars football team]] | birth_date = {{Birth date|1936|4|19}} | death_date = {{Death date and age|2013|4|1|1936|4|19}} | birth_place = [[Exira, Iowa]] | death_place = [[Denver, Colorado]] | overall_record = 87–77 (NFL)<br />22–11–1 (college) | bowl_record = 0–1 | CFbDWID = 1812 | player_years = 1954–1956<br />1957–1970<br />1971–1973 | player_teams = [[Texas A&M Aggies football|Texas A&M]]<br />[[St. Louis Rams|Los Angeles Rams]]<br />[[Washington Redskins]] | player_positions = [[Fullback (American football)|Fullback]], [[linebacker]] | coach_years = 1974<br />1975–1977<br />1978–1980<br />1981<br />1984–1985<br />1987–1989<br />1990–1994<br />1995 | coach_teams = [[San Antonio Wings|Florida Blazers]]<br />[[Chicago Bears]]<br />[[Washington Redskins]]<br />[[San Diego Chargers]] (DC)<br />[[Houston Gamblers]]<br />[[Houston Cougars football|University of Houston]]<br />[[Tennessee Titans|Houston Oilers]]<br />[[Birmingham Barracudas]] | CFBHOF_year = 1986 | CFBHOF_id = 50046 | BASKHOF_year = }} '''John Perry Pardee''' (April 19, 1936 – April 1, 2013) was an [[American football]] [[linebacker]] and the only head coach to helm a team in [[college football]], the [[National Football League]], the [[United States Football League]], the [[World Football League]], and the [[Canadian Football League]]. Pardee was inducted into the [[College Football Hall of Fame]] as a player in 1986. ==Playing career== As a teenager, Pardee moved to [[Christoval, Texas]] where he excelled as a member of the [[six-man football]] team.<ref>[http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/hssports/football/stories/MYSA101506.01W.FBHsixman.main.30a4103.html] Football: The six-man world. San Antonio Express-News at www.mysanantonio.com, October 14, 2006.</ref> He was an [[All-America]]n linebacker at [[Texas A&M University]] and a two-time [[All-Pro]] with the [[St. Louis Rams|Los Angeles Rams]] (1963) and the [[Washington Redskins]] (1971). He was one of the few six-man players to ever make it to the NFL, and his knowledge of that wide-open game would serve him well 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 [[Bear Bryant|Paul "Bear" Bryant]]. He was part of the 35 left from the approximately 100 players who went to [[Junction, Texas]]. After completing college at Texas A&M, Pardee was the 14th overall pick when he was [[NFL Draft|drafted]] in the second round by the Los Angeles Rams as a [[linebacker]]. Pardee played for the Rams from 1957 to 1970; sitting out the 1965 season while battling [[Malignant melanoma|melanoma]]. In 1971, Pardee joined the Washington Redskins, ending his playing career there in 1973. ==Coaching career== ===WFL=== When the World Football League started in 1974, Pardee got his first head coaching job with the Washington Ambassadors. The team would later relocate to Norfolk, Virginia and become the Virginia Ambassadors before finally moving to their third and final home as the [[San Antonio Wings|Florida Blazers]]. The Blazers, based in Orlando, made it all the way to the 1974 [[World Bowl#World Football League|World Bowl]] and lost by one point to the [[Birmingham Americans]]. Pardee's regular season coaching record in 1974 with the Blazers was 14–6, and 2–1 in the 1974 WFL Playoffs and World Bowl. This was all the more remarkable considering that the Blazers went unpaid for the last three months of the season. Some of the Blazers players relocated to San Antonio as the Wings for the 1975 season, and Pardee would move on too, signing on as head coach of the Chicago Bears for the 1975 season. ===First stint in the NFL=== In 1975, Pardee was hired by the [[Chicago Bears]] as head coach. He spent the next three years there, leading Chicago to their first playoff berth in 14 years in 1977, before moving on to the [[Washington Redskins]]. In 1979 he led the Redskins to within 1 game of making the playoffs, but in the season's final week they blew a 13-point lead to the eventual NFC East champions [[Dallas Cowboys]] and missed the playoffs. He was fired after going 6-10 in 1980. In 1981, he was hired as Assistant Head Coach in charge of defense for the [[San Diego Chargers]]. ===USFL=== In 1984, Pardee returned to his native Texas by becoming the head coach of the [[Houston Gamblers]]. The Gamblers played spring football in the [[United States Football League]]. The Gamblers had one of the most potent offenses in pro football, the [[run and shoot offense]], with [[Jim Kelly]] as quarterback. The Gamblers merged with the [[New Jersey Generals]] in 1986, and Pardee was named head coach. With Kelly and [[Doug Flutie]] both vying for the role of starting quarterback, and [[Herschel Walker]] in the backfield, the Generals were poised to dominate the USFL. But the league's attempted move to a fall schedule (at the behest of the Generals' owner, [[Donald Trump]]) ruined any chance of that. There would be no 1986 season, and the Generals, despite Trump's best efforts, disbanded with the rest of the league. ===NCAA=== Pardee returned to Houston in 1987 as head coach at the [[University of Houston]]. During his three-year stint, the Cougars, utilizing the same offense he coached in the USFL, produced the first ever African-American quarterback to win the [[Heisman Trophy]], [[Andre Ware]]. His team also became the first major college team in NCAA history to have over 1,000 total offensive yards in a single game, raking up 1,021 yards while beating [[SMU Mustangs football|SMU]], 95–21.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bleacherreport.com/articles/75481-fsd-history-flashback-october-21-1989 |title=FSD History Flashback: October 21, 1989 |publisher=Bleacher Report |date= |accessdate=April 2, 2013}}</ref> Not long after Pardee's arrival, however, Houston was slapped with crippling [[NCAA]] sanctions due to numerous major violations under his predecessor, [[Bill Yeoman]]. Among them, the Cougars were banned from bowl games in 1989 and 1990 and kicked off live television in 1989. As a result, most of the nation never got a chance to see the Cougars set numerous offensive records during the 1989 season. ===Second stint in the NFL=== In 1990, Pardee packed up the run and shoot offense and moved across town, and back to the NFL, by joining the [[Tennessee Titans|Houston Oilers]]. He spent five years coaching a team which made the playoffs each of his first four years there, led by Hall of Fame quarterback [[Warren Moon]]. After starting the 1994 season 1–9, Pardee resigned. ===CFL=== He continued his coaching career in the [[Canadian Football League]]. In 1995, he was named head coach of the [[Birmingham Barracudas]]. Canadian football is somewhat more wide-open than American football, and owner [[Arthur L. Williams, Jr.|Art Williams]] thought Pardee's roots in the six-man game made him a natural fit. The "Cudas" were part of a [[CFL USA|failed experiment to expand the CFL into the United States]]. With [[Matt Dunigan]] at quarterback, Birmingham made the playoffs, but lost in the first round. However, due to dreadful attendance late in the season, the 'Cudas were shuttered at the end of the season along with the CFL's other American teams. ===Return to coaching=== In December 2007, Pardee, then 71, was contacted by athletic director [[Dave Maggard]] about the vacant head coaching job at the University of Houston. Signaling interest, he made it as far as a finalist for the position, however the school moved forward with [[University of Oklahoma|Oklahoma]] co-offensive coordinator [[Kevin Sumlin]].<ref name=ESPN121707>Mark Schlabach, [http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/columns/story?columnist=schlabach_mark&id=3158996 Yellow Jackets, Wolverines, Midshipmen earn high marks], ESPN.com, December 17, 2007.</ref> ==Personal life== Pardee was married for 50 years to Phyllis Lane Perryman and had five children and 12 grandchildren. Pardee's youngest son, Ted, is the color commentator for the [[Houston Cougars]] football radio broadcasts. In November 2012, Pardee was diagnosed with [[gallbladder cancer]] and it was reported by his family that he only had six to nine more months to live,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/football/nfl/11/27/jack-pardee-ill-with-cancer.ap/index.html?xid=si_mostpopular|title=NFL legend Pardee ill with cancer|work=[[Sports Illustrated]]|date=November 27, 2012|accessdate=November 27, 2012}}</ref> The cancer spread to other organs and Pardee moved to a [[Denver]] [[hospice]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Former Redskins coach, player Jack Pardee dead at 76|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colleges/former-oilers-cougars-coach-aandm-player-jack-pardee-dead-at-76/2013/04/01/ff4bc664-9b28-11e2-9219-51eb8387e8f1_story.html?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost|publisher=Washington Post|accessdate=3 April 2013}}</ref> Pardee died April 1, 2013, two and a half weeks before his 77th birthday. The family has established a memorial [[scholarship]] fund in Pardee’s name at the [[University of Houston]]. He is survived by his wife Phyllis; five children and 12 grandchildren.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/04/01/reports-jack-pardee-passes-away/ |title=Jack Pardee passes away | ProFootballTalk |publisher=Profootballtalk.nbcsports.com |date=April 19, 1936 |accessdate=April 2, 2013}}</ref> ==Head coaching record== ===College=== {{CFB Yearly Record Start|type=coach|conf=yes|bowl=yes|poll=both}} {{CFB Yearly Record Subhead | name = [[Houston Cougars football|Houston Cougars]] | conf = [[Southwest Conference]] | startyear = 1987 | endyear = 1989 }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | year = [[1987 NCAA Division I-A football season|1987]] | name = Houston | overall = 4–6–1 | conference = 2–4–1 | confstanding = 7th | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | ranking = | ranking2 = }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | year = [[1988 NCAA Division I-A football season|1988]] | name = Houston | overall = 9–3 | conference = 5–2 | confstanding = 2nd | bowlname = [[1988 Aloha Bowl|Aloha]] | bowloutcome = L | ranking = | ranking2 = 18 }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | year = [[1989 NCAA Division I-A football season|1989]] | name = [[1989 Houston Cougars football team|Houston]] | overall = 9–2 | conference = 5–2 | confstanding = 2nd | bowlname = Ineligible | bowloutcome = | ranking = Ineligible | ranking2 = 14 }} {{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal | name = Houston | overall = 22–11–1 | confrecord = 12–8–1 }} {{CFB Yearly Record End | overall = 22–11–1 | bcs = no | poll = two }} ===NFL=== {| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%; text-align:center;" |- ! rowspan="2"|Team !! rowspan="2"|Year !! colspan="5"|Regular Season !! colspan="4"|Post Season |- !Won!!Lost!!Ties!!Win %!!Finish!! Won !! Lost !! Win % !! Result |- ![[Chicago Bears|CHI]]||[[1975 NFL season|1975]] ||4||10||0||.286||'''3rd in NFC Central'''|| - || - || - || - |- !CHI||[[1976 NFL season|1976]] ||7||7||0||.500||'''2nd in NFC Central'''|| - || - || - || - |- !CHI||[[1977 NFL season|1977]] ||9||5||0||.643||'''2nd in NFC Central'''|| 0 || 1 || .000 || <Small>'''Lost to [[Dallas Cowboys]] in NFC Divisional Game.</Small>''' |- ! colspan="2"|Chicago Total ||20||22||0||.476|| ||0||1||.000|| |- ![[Washington Redskins|WAS]]||[[1978 NFL season|1978]] ||8||8||0||.500||'''3rd in NFC East'''|| - || - || - || - |- !WAS||[[1979 NFL season|1979]] ||10||6||0||.625||'''3rd in NFC East'''|| - || - || - || - |- !WAS||[[1980 NFL season|1980]] ||6||10||0||.375||'''3rd in NFC East'''|| - || - || - || - |- ! colspan="2"|Washington Total ||24||24||0||.500|| || - || - || - || |- ![[Tennessee Titans|HOU]]||[[1990 NFL season|1990]] ||9||7||0||.563||'''2nd in AFC Central'''|| 0 || 1 || .000 || <Small>'''Lost to [[Cincinnati Bengals]] in AFC Wild-Card Game.</Small>''' |- !HOU||[[1991 NFL season|1991]] ||11||5||0||.688||'''1st in AFC Central'''|| 1 || 1 || .500 || <Small>'''Lost to [[Denver Broncos]] in AFC Divisional Game.</Small>''' |- !HOU||[[1992 NFL season|1992]] ||10||6||0||.625||'''2nd in AFC Central'''|| 0 || 1 || .000 || <Small>'''Lost to [[Buffalo Bills]] in AFC Wild-Card Game.</Small>''' |- !HOU||[[1993 NFL season|1993]] ||12||4||0||.750||'''1st in AFC Central'''|| 0 || 1 || .000 || <Small>'''Lost to [[Kansas City Chiefs]] in AFC Divisional Game.</Small>''' |- !HOU||[[1994 NFL season|1994]] ||1||9||0||.100||'''4th in AFC Central'''|| - || - || - || - |- ! colspan="2"|Houston Total ||43||31||0||.581|| || 1 || 4 || .200 || |- ! colspan="2"|Career Total ||87||77||0||.530|| || 1 || 5 || .167 || |} ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== * {{cfbhof|id=50046|name=Jack Pardee}} * {{CFBCR|1812|Jack Pardee}} * {{pro-football-reference|id=P/PardJa00|name=Jack Pardee}} * [http://www.footballcardgallery.com/player/Jack+Pardee/ Jack Pardee football card gallery] *[http://www.oldestlivingprofootball.com/johnpjackpardee.htm Pro Football Necrology 2013 - Jack Pardee] {{s-start}} {{s-sports}} {{succession box | title=[[Birmingham Barracudas|Birmingham Barracudas Head Coach]] | before=none | years=1995| after=none}} {{s-end}} {{Chicago Bears coach navbox}} {{Washington Redskins coach navbox}} {{Houston Cougars football coach navbox}} {{Tennessee Titans coach navbox}} {{Paul "Bear" Bryant Award Lifetime Achievement Award winners}} {{Los Angeles Rams 40th Anniversary Team}} {{AP NFL Coaches of the Year}} {{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]]. --> | NAME = Pardee, Jack | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = American football player and coach | DATE OF BIRTH = April 19, 1936 | PLACE OF BIRTH = Exira, Iowa | DATE OF DEATH = April 1, 2013 | PLACE OF DEATH = Denver, Colorado }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Pardee, Jack}} Loading editor 1936 births 2013 deaths Texas A&M University alumni American football fullbacks American football linebackers Chicago Bears head coaches Houston Cougars football coaches Houston Oilers head coaches Los Angeles Rams players Texas A&M Aggies football players Washington Redskins head coaches Washington Redskins players Birmingham Barracudas Canadian Football League coaches National Football League defensive coordinators National Football League head coaches World Football League coaches College Football Hall of Fame inductees Western Conference Pro Bowl players People from Audubon County, Iowa People from Tom Green County, Texas Players of American football from Texas Below are some commonly used wiki markup codes. 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