Steve Spurrier
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Biography
Stephen Orr Spurrier (born April 20, 1945) is an American former football player and coach. He played ten seasons in the National Football League (NFL) before coaching for 38 years. He is often referred to by his nickname, "The Head Ball Coach". He played college football as a quarterback for the Florida Gators, where he won the 1966 Heisman Trophy. The San Francisco 49ers selected him in the first round of the 1967 NFL draft, and he spent a decade playing in the National Football League (NFL) mainly as a backup quarterback and punter. Spurrier was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1986. Spurrier’s first job as head coach was with the Tampa Bay Bandits of the United States Football League (USFL) from 1983 - 1985. Spurrier returned to the college ranks in 1987, serving as the head football coach for the Duke Blue Devils (three seasons), Florida Gators (12 seasons), and South Carolina Gamecocks (10.5 seasons), amassing 228 total wins and a 72% career winning percentage. Between his stints at Florida and South Carolina, he led the Washington Redskins of the National Football League (NFL) for two seasons with less success. Description above from the Wikipedia article Steve Spurrier, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
The true story of one season in the life of a pro football team. As one man fights for his life, a group of fifty young men struggles to hold onto a dream.
The Final Season
From 0-26 to two-time Super Bowl champs - this is the Buccaneers' untold story, featuring Gruden, Sapp, Brady, Evans, Alslott & more.
Raise the Flags: 50 Years of Buccaneers Football
An immersive, time-capsule style film chronicling the controversial Heisman race that unfolded at the center of an unforgettable season.
The Great Heisman Race of 1997
The University of Florida football team always seemed to have a heat problem. That tends to happen when you build your football facilities on top of a swamp where the temperature averages over 80 degrees. Players often collapsed and were sent to the infirmary. Enter Dr. Robert Cade — artist, musician, horticulturalist, and, most important, world-renowned kidney specialist at the university. In the 1960s, Cade made sports hydration his mission. After a careful series of tests on some of the players, Cade developed a “magic elixir” that would keep the Gators out of the infirmary and on the field. They called it Gatorade.
The Sweat Solution
The most dominant performance in college football history by the Nebraska Cornhuskers paralleled a program spiraling out of control. Coach Tom Osborne faced his most significant test yet.
Day by Day: The Dynasty
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers losing their first ever 26 games.