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#Football Legends Sid Gillman and Don Coryell 
Exclusive on Cox Communications' Channel 4 Super Bowl#
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SAN DIEGO--(BW SportsWire)--Jan. 15, 1998--Reconnect with two of 
San Diego's sporting legends, Sid Gillman and Don Coryell, as 
Channel 4 Super Bowl telecasts their exclusive interviews with 
Jane Mitchell on Sunday, Jan. 18, and Monday, Jan. 19.
      
The segments are part of the half-hour TV magazine "Super Bowl 
San Diego," which is telecast throughout the day on Channel 4 Super 
Bowl.

On Jan. 18, see the show with Sid Gillman's interview at 6:30, 
7:30, 10:30 and 11:30 a.m.; and at 12:30, 4, 5, 8 and 9 p.m.  On 
Jan. 19, see the show with Don Coryell at 5, 8 and 9 a.m.; at noon; 
and at 1, 2, 5, 6 and 9:30 p.m.

Mention the Chargers' first head coach, Sid Gillman, to football 
players and they say: "Legend.  You can't talk about football and 
not talk about Gillman."

In her exclusive interview on Sunday, Jan. 18, Mitchell meets 
two legends:  Sid and his wife of 62 years, Esther.  Don't bother 
calling them when a football game is on TV -- the Gillmans love 
watching the game.  "Sid says it's what keeps him going," Mitchell 
notes.  "Esther says the great thing about him is that he makes the 
game fun."

Sid watches the game as a coach, looking for innovations on the 
part of today's players and coaches.  Pro teams send him games every 
Tuesday to review, and his innovator of football photo analysis has 
an archive of film and tape in storage.  "It's what keeps me alive," 
he says about the game he coached for sixty-odd years and still 
misses.

Sid and Esther married in 1935.  For both of them and their four 
children, football has been their life.  His family room is a museum 
of plaques and awards that highlight his career from colleges to the 
pros: the LA Rams in the 1950's, moving the Chargers to San Diego 
in 1960, winning the AFL championship in 1963.  
      
Every college and professional team where Gillman has coached has 
honored him as a member of their Hall of Fame, and in 1983 Gillman 
was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.  

"It's been a fantastic life for me," Gillman says.  Channel 4 Super
Bowl viewers will agree.  

Mitchell's exclusive interview with Don Coryell begins airing the 
next day, Jan. 19.  In her report you'll see that Coryell is known
for more than what he did during his nine years with the San Diego 
Chargers -- he's known and loved for how he did things.  

Considered one of the great offensive architects in football 
history, the man with the nickname Air Coryell never took the 
Chargers to the Super Bowl, but several of his players and coaches 
are in the Pro Football Hall of Fame and give him credit for 
influencing and guiding them.  

Coryell liked to get the ball in the air, and developed one of 
football's most explosive offenses behind the powerful arm of Dan 
Fouts.  

In her exclusive interview for Channel 4 Super Bowl, Jane Mitchell 
traces Don's career from San Diego State to the St. Louis Cardinals 
and then, in 1978, his return to take over the struggling Chargers.  

"I didn't want to change things too much," related Coryell.  "They 
had their own way of doing things.  Then Gene Klein came up to me 
and said, 'I hired you because you have a reputation of being able to 
throw the football.  Now get out there and throw it!'"  
      
He did, leading the team in some of their greatest years including 
division championships and the NFL's most grueling playoff game in 
1982 when the Chargers faced Miami.  
      
Mitchell found that with Coryell, "it's the relationships that 
matter.  The players talk about how hard they played because they 
cared about what Don thought, and Don himself treasures the 
connections he had with some extraordinarily talented people," she 
says.  

See Jane Mitchell's one-on-one interviews during the half-hour TV 
magazine "Super Bowl San Diego," airing a fresh edition every day 
during the Jan. 16-25 running dates of Channel 4 Super Bowl.  You can 
also catch Jane co-hosting with Dennis Morgigno in live coverage 
coming from the NFL Experience, Media Day, Super Fest, the C.I.T.Y.  
kids' football clinic, and other events.  

The 24-hour "everything but the game" Cox Communications channel 
is committed to bringing viewers interesting highlights and sidelights 
from Super Bowl XXXII.  

CONTACT: Cox Communications
         Judith Morgan Jennings, 619/266-5382