Please Let This Happen

Bill Parcells has been offered the position of Vice President of Football Operations with the Atlanta Falcons. The position would have him technically reporting to Rich McKay, but we all know that would last only as long as it takes McKay to find a new job because there's no way he and Parcells could co-exist in the same state much less on the same staff. He even said so.

In 1996, before the Bucs hired Tony Dungy as a first-time NFL head coach, Tampa Bay owner Malcolm Glazer considered bringing Parcells aboard. McKay, however, told the Glazer family that he would resign if Parcells took the job.

And Parcells has only gotten grumpier and more abrasive while McKay has developed a permanent case of vaginitis. If McKay were to stick around for some reason, it would be nothing but turmoil and drama in Flowery Branch because the two of them are just too different. If McKay left, he would do so with the reputation of having taken a potential Super Bowl team and destroying them from the inside-out like a big, bald termite. I get free entertainment no matter what happens!

I have to admit, I like Parcells. I realize he's a huge bastard and has left the Bucs at the alter twice and he's probably even more of a miserable prick in real life than he is on TV, but I love listening to him. If he joined the Falcons, I'd probably have to move them from the list of teams that should be drowned for their own good to the list of teams that I will root for as long as their success doesn't hurt Tampa Bay. Yes, I make lots of lists.

UPDATE: Here's a much better article about the development. Apparently it is further along than I originally thought. Parcells says, "I'm pretty sure I'm going to do it."