Editing Bill Parcells (section)

{{Short description|American football coach (born 1941)}}
{{distinguish|Bill Pascrell}}
{{Use American English|date=May 2021}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2019}}
{{Infobox NFL biography
| name               = Bill Parcells
| image              = File:Bill Parcells (cropped).jpg
| caption            = Parcells as the head coach of Air Force in 1978
| birth_date         = {{Birth date and age|1941|8|22|mf=y}}
| birth_place        = [[Englewood, New Jersey]], U.S.
| death_date         =
| death_place        = 
| high_school        = [[River Dell Regional High School|River Dell]]<br />([[Oradell, New Jersey]])
| college            = [[Wichita State Shockers football|Wichita State]] (1960–1963)
| draftyear          = 1964
| draftround         = 7
| draftpick          = 89
| pastteams          =
* [[Detroit Lions]] ({{nfly|1964}})*
| pastcoaching       =
* [[Hastings Broncos football|Hastings]] (1964)<br />Linebackers coach
* [[Wichita State Shockers football|Wichita State]] (1965)<br />Linebackers coach
* [[Army Black Knights football|Army]] (1966–1967)<br />Linebackers coach
* Army (1968–1969)<br />Defensive coordinator
* [[Florida State Seminoles football|Florida State]] (1970–1972)<br />Linebackers coach
* [[Vanderbilt Commodores football|Vanderbilt]] (1973–1974)<br />Linebackers coach
* [[Texas Tech Red Raiders football|Texas Tech]] (1975–1977)<br />Defensive coordinator & linebackers coach
* [[Air Force Falcons football|Air Force]] (1978)<br />Head coach
* [[New York Giants]] ({{NFL Year|1979}})<br />Defensive coordinator<br />''Resigned in the offseason after six weeks''
* [[New England Patriots]] ({{NFL Year|1980}})<br />Linebackers coach
* [[New York Giants]] ({{NFL Year|1981}}–{{NFL Year|1982}})<br />Defensive coordinator & linebackers coach
* New York Giants ({{NFL Year|1983}}–{{NFL Year|1990}})<br />Head coach
* New England Patriots ({{NFL Year|1993}}–{{NFL Year|1996}})<br />Head coach
* [[New York Jets]] ({{NFL Year|1997}}–{{NFL Year|1999}})<br />Head coach
* [[Dallas Cowboys]] ({{NFL Year|2003}}–{{NFL Year|2006}})<br />Head coach
| pastexecutive      =
* New England Patriots ({{NFL Year|1993}}–{{NFL Year|1996}})<br />General manager
* New York Jets ({{NFL Year|1997}}–{{NFL Year|2000}})<br />General manager
* [[Miami Dolphins]] ({{NFL Year|2008}}–{{NFL Year|2010}})<br />Executive VP of football operations
| highlights         =
* 2× [[List of Super Bowl champions|Super Bowl champion]] ([[Super Bowl XXI|XXI]], [[Super Bowl XXV|XXV]])
* 2× [[AP NFL Coach of the Year Award|AP NFL Coach of Year]] (1986, 1994)
* [[NFL Coach of the Year Award#The Sporting News NFL Coach of the Year|''The Sporting News'' NFL Coach of Year]] (1986)
* 2× [[NFL Coach of the Year Award#Pro Football Weekly NFL Coach of the Year|''Pro Football Weekly'' NFL Coach of Year]] (1986, 1994)
* [[NFL Coach of the Year Award#Greasy Neale Award (Maxwell Football Club)|Greasy Neale Award]] (1994)
* [[NFL 1990s All-Decade Team]]
* [[New York Giants Ring of Honor]]
* [[New England Patriots Hall of Fame]]
* [[New England Patriots|New England Patriots All-1990s Team]]
| coachregrecord     = NFL: {{Winning percentage|172|130|1|record=y}}<br>NCAA: {{Winning percentage|3|8|record=y}}
| coachplayoffrecord = {{Winning percentage|11|8|record=y}}
| coachrecord        = {{Winning percentage|183|138|1|record=y}}
| pfrcoach           = ParcBi0
| pfrexec = ParcBi0
| HOF                = bill-parcells 
}}
'''Duane Charles''' "'''Bill'''" '''Parcells''' ({{IPAc-en|p|ɑːr|ˈ|s|ɛ|l|z}} {{respell|par|SELZ}}; born August 22, 1941)<ref name="Gutman">{{cite book|author=Gutman, Bill|year=2000|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/g/gutman-parcells.html|title=Parcells: A Biography|publisher=Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc|access-date=March 8, 2008}}</ref> is an American former [[American football|football]] coach who served as a [[head coach]] in the [[National Football League]] (NFL) for 19 seasons. He came to prominence as the head coach of the [[New York Giants]] from 1983 to 1990, where he won two [[Super Bowl]] titles. Parcells was later the head coach of the [[New England Patriots]] from 1993 to 1996, the [[New York Jets]] from 1997 to 2000, and the [[Dallas Cowboys]] from 2003 to 2006. Nicknamed "'''the Big Tuna'''", he is the only NFL coach to lead four different franchises to the playoffs and three to a conference championship game.

As the head coach of the Giants, Parcells took over a franchise that had qualified for the playoffs only once in the past decade and had only one winning record in their last 10 seasons. Within four years, he guided them to their first [[Super Bowl XXI|Super Bowl title]] and won a second championship in [[Super Bowl XXV]] four years later. Parcells retired following the second Super Bowl, but came out of retirement in 1993 to become the head coach of the Patriots, another struggling franchise at the time. By his fourth season, New England reached [[Super Bowl XXXI]], although the game ended in defeat. He left the Patriots after their Super Bowl loss and became the head coach and [[general manager (American football)|general manager]] of the Jets, who went from a one-win season to appearing in the [[AFC Championship Game]] by his second year.

Parcells retired for a second time in 1999, but returned again in 2003 as the head coach of the Cowboys. The Cowboys made two playoff appearances under Parcells, although both ended in first-round defeats, leading to his third and final retirement in 2007. Following his final retirement from coaching, Parcells served as the vice president of football operations for the [[Miami Dolphins]] from 2008 to 2010. He was inducted to the [[Pro Football Hall of Fame]] in 2013.<ref>{{cite news|title=Parcells, Carter finally make Pro Football Hall of Fame|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2013/02/02/nfl-hall-of-fame-announcement/1886453/|work=USA Today|access-date=February 2, 2013|first1=Jim|last1=Corbett|date=February 2, 2013}}</ref>