1. Michael Francis Sherman was born on December 19,1954 and is an American gridiron football coach and former player who most recently was the head coach of the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League.
28 Facts About Mike Sherman
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Mike Sherman was the head coach of the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League from 2000 to 2005.
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Mike Sherman led the Packers to five consecutive winning seasons from 2000 to 2004 and three divisional titles in 2002,2003, and 2004, but never advanced past the divisional round of the playoffs.
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Mike Sherman has been a coach in the NFL for the Seattle Seahawks, Houston Texans and Miami Dolphins.
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Mike Sherman is one of only a few coaches that has been a head coach at the high school, college, CFL and NFL level.
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Mike Sherman lived there with his parents, Claire and Frank Sherman, his two sisters, and his two brothers.
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Mike Sherman's extended family members, who lived nearby, were devout Green Bay Packers fans and have dutifully followed Sherman's career.
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Mike Sherman was raised in Northborough, Massachusetts, where he attended Algonquin Regional High School, playing for the football team.
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Mike Sherman earned a scholarship to play at Central Connecticut State University, where he played defensive end and offensive tackle.
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Right after college, Mike Sherman became an English teacher and an assistant football coach, serving at Stamford High School in Connecticut in 1978 and at Worcester Academy in Massachusetts from 1979 to 1980.
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Mike Sherman's father worked for a pipe company in New England and retired in 1991.
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Mike Sherman has been married to his wife Karen since 1982, and the couple have five children together.
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Mike Sherman is the father-in-law of Cincinnati Bengals head coach Zac Taylor, who is married to his oldest daughter.
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Mike Sherman started his college coaching career as a graduate assistant at the University of Pittsburgh, where he was part of Jackie Sherrill's staff from 1981 to 1982.
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Mike Sherman helped the Aggies to win three Southwest Conference championships consecutively from 1991 to 1993.
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Months later, Mike Sherman resigned to start his professional coaching career as the assistant offensive line and tight ends coach for the Green Bay Packers.
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In 2000, Mike Sherman became the head coach of the Green Bay Packers.
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Mike Sherman led the Packers to five consecutive winning seasons from 2000 to 2004.
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An offensive-minded coach, Mike Sherman led the Packers to break franchise records for rushing in 2003 and passing in 2004.
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Mike Sherman succeeded Ron Wolf as general manager of the Packers in 2001, taking on the dual role of head coach and general manager.
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Mike Sherman brought in three of the core players that were on the Packers 2010 roster.
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Mike Sherman drafted Nick Barnett, Scott Wells, and acquired Cullen Jenkins as a rookie free agent after the 2003 draft.
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On January 17,2007, he was promoted to offensive coordinator following the departure of Troy Calhoun, who left the Texans to take the head coaching job at Air Force, and Mike Sherman retained his role as assistant head coach.
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Mike Sherman signed a seven-year contract that at the time paid him $1.8 million annually.
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Mike Sherman uses a balanced offense run primarily out of pro-style formations.
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In May 2015, Nauset Regional High School announced Mike Sherman would take over as head football coach following the resignation of coach Keith Kenyon, who became the new assistant principal.
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In November 2017, it was announced that Mike Sherman had joined Your Call Football, a new platform in which fans call plays in real-time in real, live games.
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On December 20,2017, Mike Sherman was hired by the Montreal Alouettes as head coach.