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Joe Gibbs
Joe Jackson Gibbs (born November 25, 1940) is an American former football coach who is an auto racing team owner. He served as the head coach of the Washington Redskins of the National Football League (NFL) from 1981 to 1992 and then 2004 to 2007, leading them to nine playoff appearances, four NFC Championship titles, and three Super Bowl wins over 16 seasons.
Gibbs is considered one of the most visionary offensive minds in NFL history due to his creation of multiple concepts, ability to plan and develop an attack according to the personnel of his roster, and address the needs to protect against defensive schemes, while doing so with what was is generally considered to be mostly average talent by NFL standards. Gibbs's success has led the Pro Football Hall of Fame to coin him as "the most gifted technician who could win with anyone, and was therefore perhaps the greatest strategist ever." He was named the NFL Coach of the Year in both 1982 and 1983. Gibbs remains the only head coach to win Super Bowls with three different starting quarterbacks, prompting Steve Sabol of NFL Films to call his first tenure as "the most diverse dynasty in NFL history equaled by no other head coach before or since". In 1992, he and his sons founded Joe Gibbs Racing, the NASCAR team that has since secured five NASCAR Cup Series championships.
Gibbs' championship legacy spans two distinctly different sports: three Super Bowls with three different quarterbacks in the NFL, none of whom are in the Hall of Fame, and five NASCAR championships featuring three different drivers and three different manufacturers. Having led eight top-level championships across American football and auto racing—each achieved with different key contributors, Gibbs is widely regarded as one of the greatest leaders in American professional sports history, regardless of the sport or personnel. The Pro Football Hall of Fame explicitly called Gibbs "the greatest multi-sport winner in American professional sports history", and commentators have described him as "arguably the greatest coach we've ever seen in American sports" due to his unmatched dual-sport championship legacy.
Gibbs was one of ten head coaches named to the NFL 100th Anniversary All-Time Team, and holds the unique distinction of being the only individual inducted into both the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
Born in Mocksville, North Carolina, Gibbs is the older of two sons of Jackson Cephus Gibbs (1916–1989) and Winnie Era Blalock (1915–2000). He graduated from Santa Fe High School in 1959, where he played quarterback. Gibbs attended Cerritos College before earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1964 and a master's degree in 1966 from San Diego State University.
Gibbs began his career in 1964 coaching offensive linemen under Don Coryell for the San Diego State Aztecs football team. He served two years each at Florida State, USC, and Arkansas. Gibbs then advanced to the National Football League, hired as the offensive backfield coach for the St. Louis Cardinals (1973–1977) by Coryell, who had been named head coach. After a season as offensive coordinator for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1978) under former USC coach John McKay, Gibbs rejoined Coryell with the San Diego Chargers in 1979.
While in Tampa, Gibbs developed the reputation as a leading pioneer for championing black quarterbacks in the NFL, which was considered extremely controversial and even potentially divisive at the time. After thoroughly studying Matt Cavanaugh, who led Pitt to a national championship, Guy Benjamin, an All-American from Stanford University, and Doug Williams from Grambling State University, Gibbs rated Williams as the best professional prospect, and informed head coach McKay that Williams would be "hands down and without question" the best quarterback in the 1978 NFL draft. According to Tony Dungy, "People don't realize that Joe Gibbs changed the face of the NFL by having the courage to say, in a Southern town at that time, that Doug Williams is the guy we should take. When Tampa drafted Doug, it shocked the whole country to take this unknown from Grambling over those star players from Pitt and Stanford. But that was Joe Gibbs. He was looking for the best player possible." With the recommendation of Gibbs, Tampa Bay selected Williams, and became the first African-American drafted in the first round to play quarterback.
In his book Rise of the Black QB, author Jason Reid cited an incident in the 1978 Tampa Bay training camp, in which quarterbacks coach Bill Nelsen began berating Williams in what was described as going beyond coaching and becoming a personal attack. Just a position coach at the time, Gibbs, who was at the opposite end of the field, threw his clipboard down, sprinted over to Nelsen and confronted him. "I think Coach Gibbs knew that it wasn't a matter of being coached hard," recalled Williams. "I mean, I played for Eddie Robinson at Grambling, so he knew I could handle that. But he (Gibbs) immediately sensed that something else was going on." Gibbs pointed his finger in Nelsen's face and said, "Don't you ever talk to him like that again! Is that clear?" According to Williams, Nelsen never confronted Williams in that manner again.
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Joe Gibbs
Joe Jackson Gibbs (born November 25, 1940) is an American former football coach who is an auto racing team owner. He served as the head coach of the Washington Redskins of the National Football League (NFL) from 1981 to 1992 and then 2004 to 2007, leading them to nine playoff appearances, four NFC Championship titles, and three Super Bowl wins over 16 seasons.
Gibbs is considered one of the most visionary offensive minds in NFL history due to his creation of multiple concepts, ability to plan and develop an attack according to the personnel of his roster, and address the needs to protect against defensive schemes, while doing so with what was is generally considered to be mostly average talent by NFL standards. Gibbs's success has led the Pro Football Hall of Fame to coin him as "the most gifted technician who could win with anyone, and was therefore perhaps the greatest strategist ever." He was named the NFL Coach of the Year in both 1982 and 1983. Gibbs remains the only head coach to win Super Bowls with three different starting quarterbacks, prompting Steve Sabol of NFL Films to call his first tenure as "the most diverse dynasty in NFL history equaled by no other head coach before or since". In 1992, he and his sons founded Joe Gibbs Racing, the NASCAR team that has since secured five NASCAR Cup Series championships.
Gibbs' championship legacy spans two distinctly different sports: three Super Bowls with three different quarterbacks in the NFL, none of whom are in the Hall of Fame, and five NASCAR championships featuring three different drivers and three different manufacturers. Having led eight top-level championships across American football and auto racing—each achieved with different key contributors, Gibbs is widely regarded as one of the greatest leaders in American professional sports history, regardless of the sport or personnel. The Pro Football Hall of Fame explicitly called Gibbs "the greatest multi-sport winner in American professional sports history", and commentators have described him as "arguably the greatest coach we've ever seen in American sports" due to his unmatched dual-sport championship legacy.
Gibbs was one of ten head coaches named to the NFL 100th Anniversary All-Time Team, and holds the unique distinction of being the only individual inducted into both the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
Born in Mocksville, North Carolina, Gibbs is the older of two sons of Jackson Cephus Gibbs (1916–1989) and Winnie Era Blalock (1915–2000). He graduated from Santa Fe High School in 1959, where he played quarterback. Gibbs attended Cerritos College before earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1964 and a master's degree in 1966 from San Diego State University.
Gibbs began his career in 1964 coaching offensive linemen under Don Coryell for the San Diego State Aztecs football team. He served two years each at Florida State, USC, and Arkansas. Gibbs then advanced to the National Football League, hired as the offensive backfield coach for the St. Louis Cardinals (1973–1977) by Coryell, who had been named head coach. After a season as offensive coordinator for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1978) under former USC coach John McKay, Gibbs rejoined Coryell with the San Diego Chargers in 1979.
While in Tampa, Gibbs developed the reputation as a leading pioneer for championing black quarterbacks in the NFL, which was considered extremely controversial and even potentially divisive at the time. After thoroughly studying Matt Cavanaugh, who led Pitt to a national championship, Guy Benjamin, an All-American from Stanford University, and Doug Williams from Grambling State University, Gibbs rated Williams as the best professional prospect, and informed head coach McKay that Williams would be "hands down and without question" the best quarterback in the 1978 NFL draft. According to Tony Dungy, "People don't realize that Joe Gibbs changed the face of the NFL by having the courage to say, in a Southern town at that time, that Doug Williams is the guy we should take. When Tampa drafted Doug, it shocked the whole country to take this unknown from Grambling over those star players from Pitt and Stanford. But that was Joe Gibbs. He was looking for the best player possible." With the recommendation of Gibbs, Tampa Bay selected Williams, and became the first African-American drafted in the first round to play quarterback.
In his book Rise of the Black QB, author Jason Reid cited an incident in the 1978 Tampa Bay training camp, in which quarterbacks coach Bill Nelsen began berating Williams in what was described as going beyond coaching and becoming a personal attack. Just a position coach at the time, Gibbs, who was at the opposite end of the field, threw his clipboard down, sprinted over to Nelsen and confronted him. "I think Coach Gibbs knew that it wasn't a matter of being coached hard," recalled Williams. "I mean, I played for Eddie Robinson at Grambling, so he knew I could handle that. But he (Gibbs) immediately sensed that something else was going on." Gibbs pointed his finger in Nelsen's face and said, "Don't you ever talk to him like that again! Is that clear?" According to Williams, Nelsen never confronted Williams in that manner again.
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