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Tom Landry is ranked as one of the greatest and most innovative coaches in NFL history, creating many new formations and methods. His 29 consecutive years as the coach of one team are an NFL record, along with his 20 consecutive winning seasons. Landry won two Super Bowl titles (VI, XII), five NFC titles, 13 Divisional titles, and compiled a 270–178–6 record, the third-most wins all-time for an NFL coach. His 20 career playoff victories are the second most of any coach in NFL history. Landry served in the Army Air Forces during World War II where he was assigned to the 860th Bomb Squadron. Landry co-piloted the massive B-17 Flying Fortress Bomber on more than 30 combat missions
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8. Tom Landry (1960-1988) ranks as one of the greatest and most innovative coaches in NFL history, creating many new formations and methods. He invented the now popular 43 defense, and the "flex defense" system made famous by the "Doomsday Defense" squads he created during his 29-year tenure with the Dallas Cowboys. His 29 consecutive years as the coach of one team are an NFL record, along with his 20 consecutive winning seasons. Landry won two Super Bowl titles (VI, XII), five NFC titles, 13 Divisional titles, and compiled a 2701786 record, the third-most wins all-time for an NFL coach. His 20 career playoff victories are the second most of any coach in NFL history. He was named the NFL Coach of the Year in 1966 and the NFC Coach of the Year in 1975. His most impressive professional accomplishment is his 20 consecutive winning seasons (19661985), an NFL record that remains unbroken and unchallenged. From 1966 to 1982 Dallas played in 12 NFL or NFC Championship games, a span of 17 years. More impressive is the Cowboys' appearance in 10 NFC Championship games in the 13-year span from 1970 to 1982. Leading the Cowboys to three Super Bowl appearances in four years between 1975 and 1978, and five in nine years between 1970 and 1978, and being on television more than any other NFL team is what spawned the title of "America's Team"
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FILE - In this Dec. 18, 1988, file photo, Dallas Cowboys head coach Tom Landry watches from the sideline during an NFL football game against the Philadelphia Eagles in Irving, Texas.New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick may seem like one-of-a-kind, and he will set himself apart with a win Sunday in Super Bowl 51, which would make him the first coach to capture five Super Bowl rings. But he has much in common with Tom Landry, Chuck Noll, John Wooden and any other coach to put himself among the Mount Rushmore of the best to ever run a team. (AP Photo/Ron Heflin, File)
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FILE - This is a Jan. 17, 1979, file photo showing Dallas Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach with coach Tom Landry. All these years later, Roger Staubach remembers quite clearly what his initial reaction was when Landry approached him about making the shotgun formation a recurring feature of their offense. "I thought he was crazy or something," the former quarterback said with a snicker during a telephone interview this week (AP Photo/File)
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WINNING COACHES - 10. Tom Landry was named head coach of the Dallas Cowboys’ for their inaugural season in 1960 and held the position until 1989. In the process, he racked up 270 wins, which is good for third-most in NFL history, and led the Cowboys to 20 consecutive winning seasons from 1966-85.
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Longtime New York Giants and Washington Redskins linebacker Sam Huff, left, poses with his Pro Football Hall of Fame presenter and former coach Tom Landry following his Pro Football Hall of Fame enshrinement speech in Canton, Ohio on Aug. 7, 1982. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)
