Bill McPherson (American football) Pat, is the tight ends coach for the Seattle Seahawks. Bill McPherson (American football) Bill McPherson is a former American football coach in the National Football League. He was the San Francisco 49ers defensive coordinator from 1992 to 1993. He was a coach or front office executive in the 49ers organization from 1979 to 2005 and won five Super Bowls. McPherson was most known for his ability to coach the defensive line, serving as coach of that position for Santa Clara University (1963–1974), UCLA (1975–1977), Philadelphia Eagles (1978), and San Francisco 49ers (1979–1991, 1994–1998). While with Santa Clara, he also
American football in the Netherlands 1991 saw the birth of the World League of American Football (WLAF). This precursor to NFL Europa was a professional competition founded and funded by the US league: the NFL. The intentions of the WLAF were two-fold: to increase the popularity of the sport in Europe and to act as a feeder league to the NFL, testing out young players who were on the brink of breaking into the NFL. These developments had a large influence on Dutch American Football. By the end of the 1990s American Football as a sport in the Netherlands was in crisis. Only a third