The Prime Of Coach Bum Phillips

January, 1981

"Coaching? Gosh, you can do it in a jillion ways," says Oail A. "Bum" Phillips, head coach of the Houston Oilers. "Coaching is the only profession that six or seven people can be right about, and they're all opposites."Actually, there isn't that much diversity among National Football League coaches. They boil down to two broad categories: on the one hand, all the technocrats; on the other, Bum.Bum is the only N.F.L. head coach who chews thick-cut Tinsley's plug toba...