7 Things You Didn't Know About The New 49ers, Raiders Coaches
OAKLAND (CBS SF) - Jim Tomsula has spent his entire NFL career in San Francisco with the 49ers, Jack Del Rio spent his childhood in the East Bay before gaining NFL fame. Now that these two men lead two of the league's most storied franchises, it's time get to know them better bay looking at a few fun facts from their football past:
- In his first appearance at the Oakland Coliseum, in 1979, Del Rio shifted the momentum of the North Coast Section Division 2 championship game by breaking the collar bone of the opposing team's quarterback with a punishing hit, per the Bay Area News Group. Hayward High ended up winning 12-10.
- Jim Tomsula coached for four different World League or NFL Europe teams, all of which went out of business within two years of his departure. No wonder the 49ers wanted to keep him around.
- Del Rio was drafted four years before he entered the NFL, to play baseball. The Toronto Blue Jays picked him in the 22nd round in 1981, but he elected to play football at USC instead.
- Tomsula once supplemented his assistant coaching earnings at Charleston Southern by delivering newspapers, cleaning parking lots and chopping firewood, according to newsobserver.com.
- Del Rio is the winningest (tied with Tom Coughlin) and longest-tenured coach in the history of the Jacksonville Jaguars franchise, yet still compiled a losing record at 68-71.
- Media reports have been saying Tomsula has "no head coaching experience" but he once led the now-defunct Rhein Fire of Germany to a 6-4 finish in Europe, and was the man asked to take over for a single game in 2010 when the 49ers let Mike Singletary go.
- Del Rio grew up a Raiders fan. His parents have season tickets and his brother a security guard there, according to NFL Network.
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