It’s been a while, but Bill Parcells finally gets a place in New English patriots Hall of Fame.
Team owner Robert Kraft posted on Tuesday in Nfl Meetings of the Florida League that will include plots in this year’s class as an associate, ending the spraying between the two who culminated in the parcels, leaving after losing Super Bowl in Nova England after the 1996 season.
“In the early 1990s, Patriots were in a mess,” Kraft said in a statement. “But the employment of Bill Parcells in 1993, a double champion of Super Bowla, brought current credibility in the franchise.”
Parcells trained four seasons in Nova England from 1993 to 1996. The team only went 5-11 in his first season. Then the Parcells was rapid renewal, with the Patriots crossed from the bottom of the AFC East until the end of 11-5 1996. They made them up to Super Bowla to cover that season where they lost to Green Bay Packers.
This Super Bowl was significant at the end of Parcells’ term in Nova England, and he resigned as a coach for days later in a dispute with staff control donuts.
Parcells ended the abandonment of Patriots to train the AFC East rival New York Jets In 1997, the then NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue made an agreement that gave the Patriots four drafts to allow Parcells to train Jets.
The incident caused friction between the Parcells franchise, and Parcells was nominated five times for the Patriots Hall (2011, 2012, 2014, 2020 and 2023), but never came in.
In the intervening years, Parcells was named in Pro Football Hall of Fame as the only NFL coach who has ever led four different teams in playoffs and three different teams in the conference championship game. He is also a member of the Patriots team in the 1990s.
Kraft told Florida reporters that his desire to see Parcells respect “while we were both living.” Parcells and Kraft will be 84 years old this summer.
“I’m sure he would be voted in in the end, but I wanted to speed up the procedure so he could enjoy the ceremony,” Kraft said.
Associated press reporting.
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2025-04-01 22:04:00
