Nine years after he was pitched overboard by Matt Millen for Steve Mariucci, Marty Mornhinweg could be headed back to the top job for an NFL team.

Via our corporate cousins at CSNPhilly.com, an online oddsmaker has installed Mornhinweg as the favorite to replace Jim Caldwell.

If this comes to pass, Mornhinweg would be the first ex-Lions head coach to be hired for another NFL/AFL head coaching job since George Wilson left Detroit to take over the Dolphins in 1966*. Wilson jumped leagues for his new job, so to find an ex-Lions head coach who was hired elsewhere in the NFL, you’ve got to go back to Wilson’s predecessor, Buddy Parker, who went from Detroit to the top job with Pittsburgh back in 1957.

*Dick Jauron was an interim head coach in 2005 and later was the head man in Buffalo, but that’s the closest they’ve gotten.

9:59 am - 19 Jan 2012 - 1 note
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