Later this month, three Super Bowl-winning coaches from this decade -- Tom Coughlin (Giants), Bill Cowher (Steelers) and Jon Gruden (Bucs) -- will join one AFC Championship coach, Tennessee's Jeff Fisher and the AFC Championship runnerup last year, Baltimore's John Harbaugh, in traveling to the Persian Gulf to visit our troops. "This is something I've wanted to do for years,'' Coughlin said, "and I can't tell you how excited I am, and all the coaches are, to be making this trip. It's a great chance for us to recognize the real heroes of this country." I hear the league didn't have a difficult time persuading the time-challenged coaches to clear their calendars for a week. Commissioner Roger Goodell went last July, and he's been an outspoken advocate of not only what his trip did for the troops, but also what it did for him. "Several things about the trip were very striking -- how our service men and [women] never complain about anything, how much I admired them, and how much the NFL meant to them,'' Goodell recalled last week. Source: Peter King, SI.com
