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==Post-playing career== After four years with the Bears, Lujack returned to Notre Dame as an assistant coach for 1952 and 1953 to repay Frank Leahy as a debt of gratitude for having given him a scholarship to Notre Dame.<ref name=KroegerJ-2005-09-20/><ref name=WhiteM-1994-09-14/> Leahy wanted Lujack to succeed him as the head coach of the Fighting Irish, but [[Terry Brennan]] was chosen instead by Reverend [[Theodore Hesburgh]], the university president.<ref>{{citation |title=Papa Bear: The Life and Legacy of George Halas |author=Davis, Jeff |publisher=McGraw-Hill Professional |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-07-147741-3 |page=240 }}</ref> In 1954, he then went into the car dealership business with his father-in-law, at Lujack Schierbrock Chevrolet Company of [[Davenport, Iowa]].<ref name=KroegerJ-2005-09-20/><ref>''[[Motor (American magazine)|Motor]]'' volume 116, publisher Hearst Corp., 1961, page 44</ref> He purchased his father-in-law's dealership interest in 1988.<ref>Pennington. β p.96.</ref> Sometime in late 2006, the dealership was sold by his former son-in-law to Smart Automotive.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.smartautoqc.com/about-us/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200929064428/https://www.smartautoqc.com/about-us/ |archive-date=September 29, 2020 |title=About Us {{!}} Smart Automotive}}</ref> Lujack served as a television [[color commentator]] for NFL games on [[NFL on CBS]] for several years, teaming with [[Ray Scott (sportscaster)|Ray Scott]] to call [[Green Bay Packers]] games in 1957 and with [[Chris Schenkel]] to call [[New York Giants]] games from 1958 to 1961.<ref name="Markoe-p74">Markoe. β p.74.</ref><ref>{{citation |author=Adams, Val |title=TV-Radio Notes |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=July 22, 1956 }}</ref><ref name=DavisJ-2007-p133> {{citation |title=Rozelle: Czar of the NFL |author=Davis, Jeff |publisher=McGraw-Hill Professional |year=2007 |page=[https://archive.org/details/rozelleczarofnfl0000davi/page/133 133] |isbn=978-0-07-147166-4 |url=https://archive.org/details/rozelleczarofnfl0000davi/page/133 }}</ref> However, in 1962 when Ford signed on as a major sponsor and learned that Lujack was a Chevrolet dealer, he was replaced by [[Pat Summerall]].<ref name=DavisJ-2007-p133/><ref>{{citation |title=Summerall: On and Off the Air |page=[https://archive.org/details/summerallonoffai00summ/page/81 81] |author=Summerall, Pat |year=2006 |publisher=Thomas Nelson |isbn=978-0-7852-1492-2 |url=https://archive.org/details/summerallonoffai00summ/page/81 }}</ref> He also worked with [[Jim McKay]] on CBS doing college football and on [[College Football on ABC|ABC]] college football telecasts in the late 1960s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://und.com/heisman-anniversaries-celebrating-john-lujack-and-tim-brown/|publisher=[[University of Notre Dame]]|title=Heisman Anniversaries: Celebrating John Lujack and Tim Brown|author=Heisler, John|date=September 17, 2017}}</ref> On June 8, 1978, Lujack was inducted into the [[National Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.polishsportshof.com/portfolio_page/johnny-lujack/|publisher=[[National Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame]]|title=Johnny Lujack}}</ref> In 2005, Lujack donated $50,000 to Connellsville High School toward a new field house for the football stadium.<ref name=KroegerJ-2005-09-20/> It was later named Johnny Lujack Field House.<ref name=KroegerJ-2005-09-20/> The Johnny Lujack Training Facility was formally dedicated in 2009 and he was also inducted into the inaugural class of the Fayette County Sports Hall of Fame.<ref name=DvorchakR-2009-07-14/>
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