""I've always wanted to make him proud," Schottenheimer said. "I think that was always something when I got into the business, I knew that I had literally two things: It was my word, which I never will break for anybody because it's too important, and my last name. That was something that he just always beat into my head like, 'Hey, you, know, you're a Schottenheimer and what you say has to be truth and honor.'""
""But, you know, sitting in this chair makes it a little bit different because I'm following truly in his footsteps. I mean I've been a coach for a long time, but if I was just a quality control coach right now, I'd still be trying to carry on his legacy.""
""He's my idol, the guy I looked up to from the time I was a little boy," the Cowboys' new head coach said."
Brian Schottenheimer will place his right hand over his heart, close his eyes and bow his head before the Cowboys' season opener, speaking to God and his father Marty. He will ask his father for courage to lead players and tell him he hopes to make him proud. Schottenheimer becomes the first Schottenheimer to be an NFL head coach in 6,808 days, since Jan. 14, 2007. He values his word and last name, says his father taught truth and honor, and intends to follow his father's footsteps and carry on his legacy as a coach.
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