Tom Moore (football coach)

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Tom Moore
Date of birth	November 7, 1938 (1938-11-07) (age 69)
Place of birth	Owatonna, Minnesota
Position(s)	Offensive Coordinator
College	Iowa
Career Highlights
Super Bowl       Wins	2006 Super Bowl XLI (as offensive coordinator) 1978 Super Bowl XIII (as receivers coach) 1979 Super Bowl XIV (as offensive assistant)
Championships       Won	2006 AFC Championship 1979 AFC Championship 1978 AFC Championship
Team(s) as a coach/administrator
1977-1982 1983-1989 1990-1993 1994-1996 1997 1998-Present	Pittsburgh Steelers (receivers coach) Pittsburgh Steelers (offensive coordinator) Minnesota Vikings (assistant head coach) Detroit Lions (offensive coordinator) New Orleans Saints (running backs coach) Indianapolis Colts (offensive coordinator)

Tom Moore (born November 7, 1938 in Owatonna, Minnesota) is the current offensive coordinator of the NFL team Indianapolis Colts.

[edit] Early life

Tom Moore learned football at an early age in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. He played quarterback at the University of Iowa, where he earned a bachelor's degree in history. Moore coached at Iowa after graduation and then joined the Army for two years, when he also coached football overseas.

[edit] Coaching Career

Moore resumed his college coaching career at the University of Dayton, where he coached offensive backs and received a graduate degree in guidance counseling. When he left Dayton in 1968, Moore went on to coach offense for nine years at Wake Forest, Georgia Tech, Minnesota, and at WFL's New York Stars.

Moore made the transition to the majors in 1977 when he joined Chuck Noll's coaching staff at the Pittsburgh Steelers, initially serving as receivers coach. Within three years on the Steelers, Moore earned two Super Bowl rings and in 1983 he was promoted to quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator. For eight years, Moore and Tony Dungy, the Colts' head coach since 2002, were colleagues on Noll's coaching staff at Pittsburgh.

Leaving the Steelers in 1990, Moore served in senior offensive coaching roles for three teams in eight years, having the most success as offensive coordinator for the Detroit Lions, the team which led the NFL in total offense in 1995 and was the first team in NFL history to have two receivers with over 100 catches in a season (Herman Moore and Brett Perriman).

[edit] Indianapolis Colts

The Indianapolis Colts, for whom Moore served as an offensive coordinator since 1998 won Super Bowl XLI in February 2007, finishing one of the greatest stretches of offensive prosperity in NFL history. Coaching the offense under head coaches Jim Mora and Dungy, Moore oversaw the development of quarterback Peyton Manning for all of Manning's 10 NFL seasons. Manning started every single game for the Colts over that time period, going 105-55 in the regular season and 7-7 in the playoffs, also setting the new NFL record for most passing touchdowns in a season with 49 in 2004 (since surpassed by Tom Brady, 50 Touchdowns).

Besides Manning, the Colts featured some of its greatest offensive players in team history over Moore's period as coordinator, including wide receivers Marvin Harrison, Reggie Wayne, and Anthony Gonzalez, running backs Edgerrin James and Joseph Addai, and offensive linemen Tarik Glenn and Jeff Saturday. At nearly 70 years old, Moore ended his 10th season with the Colts as one of the greatest offensive assistant coaches of all time.

[edit] External links

• Colts.Com - Tom Moore profile. Retrieved on 2007-08-30.