Holmgren

[onlydarksets]

I know "The Ego" would ban all threads discussing handshakes if he could, but maybe we can put this one to rest as moot:

And, finally, on Cowher. The Jaw got an NFL title in his 14th season as Pittsburgh's coach, the longest tenure in the NFL. The tough guy, who lost his only previous Super Bowl 10 years ago to Dallas, teared up as he walked to midfield, Terrible Towels waving everywhere around him, and embraced Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060206/...fbn_super_bowl

[MTK]

Originally Posted by onlydarksets

I know "The Ego" would ban all threads discussing handshakes if he could, but maybe we can put this one to rest as moot:



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060206/...fbn_super_bowl

Both coaches have mad respect for the other. I found it hard to believe either one would purposefully disrespect the other.

I find it even harder to believe that people get so crazy about postgame handshakes.

[onlydarksets]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

Both coaches have mad respect for the other. I found it hard to believe either one would purposefully disrespect the other.

I find it even harder to believe that people get so crazy about postgame handshakes.

I was just kidding - I didn't see this one as an issue, especially, as you said, given the great respect between these two. But, it seems that it really isn't an issue since they did see each other after the game.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by onlydarksets

I was just kidding - I didn't see this one as an issue, especially, as you said, given the great respect between these two. But, it seems that it really isn't an issue since they did see each other after the game.

I wasn't singling you out, I'm just talking in general people get so freaked out about the postgame handshakes. It's pretty comical.

[hurrykaine]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

I find it even harder to believe that people get so crazy about postgame handshakes.

Coaches shaking hands after the game is as much a tradition as singing the national anthem before the game. If the post-game hand-shake weren't such a big deal, the coaches would just wave at each other in acknowledgement during the dying minutes of the game, or call each other on a cell phone or something.

No excuse for not shaking hands after a regular season game. If you don't, its clearly an ego thing.

Holmgren is a classy guy.

[HTTR]

What happens at the end of a Super Bowl is highly scripted by the network and the NFL, so what's routine in every other game -- coaches running across the field to shake hands -- is totally overwhelmed by the staging of the trophy presentation, the confetti, the media, cutting away for commercials, etc. etc.

[irish]

A totally no class move by Mike.