32 Facts About Mike Singletary

Mike Singletary was part of their Super Bowl XX championship team that beat the New England Patriots.

Mike Singletary was inducted into the Texas Sports Hall of Fame in 1995 and into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1998.

Mike Singletary later pursued a career as a coach, first as a linebackers coach for the Baltimore Ravens, then as the linebackers coach for the San Francisco 49ers.

In 2008, the 49ers promoted Singletary to the head coaching position after previous head coach Mike Nolan was fired during the season, and he remained in that position until he was fired after the 49ers were eliminated from playoff contention with one game remaining in the 2010 season.

Mike Singletary has coached for the Los Angeles Rams, the Memphis Express of the now-defunct AAF, and a brief two-season stint as the head coach of a high school team.

Mike Singletary was born in Houston, Texas, the last of ten children.

Grady filled the void, telling young Mike Singletary to stay away from vices such as drinking beer and smoking cigarettes.

Grady, the man who Mike Singletary had looked up at as a father figure, was killed in a six-car accident caused by a drunk driver.

In ninth grade, Mike Singletary was an all-state guard and linebacker.

Mike Singletary is the only college junior to be selected to the All-Southwest Conference Team of the 1970s.

Mike Singletary is a two-time recipient of the Davey O'Brien Memorial Trophy, which at the time was awarded to the most outstanding player among those playing in the southwestern United States and had yet to become the quarterback-centric award it is today.

Mike Singletary had 97 tackles as a freshman, 232 as a sophomore, then 188 and 145.

Mike Singletary was all- Southwest Conference three years and All-America two years.

Mike Singletary started 172 games for the Bears during his 12-year career, the second-most in club history.

Mike Singletary amassed an impressive 1,488 career tackles, 885 of which were solo efforts.

Mike Singletary missed playing just two games, both in 1986.

The "46" defense invented by Buddy Ryan allowed Mike Singletary to be unblocked on virtually every play.

Mike Singletary won the NFL Defensive Player of the Year, and led a defense that was ranked 1st overall.

Coach Mike Ditka said that the day before the game, he was talking to the offense while Singletary was in the next room giving the defense a motivational speech.

Mike Singletary was named NFL Defensive Player of the Year by the Associated Press in 1985 and 1988.

Mike Singletary was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1995 and to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1998.

In 2003, Mike Singletary became the linebackers coach for the Baltimore Ravens.

In 2007, Mike Singletary interviewed for the head coaching job of the Dallas Cowboys and San Diego Chargers, but was ultimately passed over.

However, Mike Singletary decided against taking the position, which instead went to Art Briles.

Mike Singletary's son Matt was a freshman on the Baylor team in 2007.

Mike Singletary became the interim head coach of the 49ers after Nolan was fired on October 20,2008.

Also in 2009, Mike Singletary joined other members of the 1985 Chicago Bears in resurrecting the Super Bowl Shuffle for a Boost Mobile commercial broadcast during Super Bowl XLIV.

Giants head coach Ben McAdoo and Mike Singletary both worked together with the 49ers in 2005.

On June 28,2016, Mike Singletary announced in an interview with a radio station that he would be returning to the coaching ranks as an advisor for the Los Angeles Rams defense.

On May 10,2018, Mike Singletary was named head coach of the Memphis Express of the Alliance of American Football.

On March 29,2018, Mike Singletary accepted a job at Trinity Christian Academy in Addison, Texas.

Mike Singletary was a contestant on the first season of the CBS reality series Beyond the Edge, which premiered in March 2022.