Former NFL head coach Bruce Arians, who won Super Bowl LV with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, revealed this week that he will undergo open heart surgery on Friday.<\/p>\n
Arians, 73, disclosed the news at the end of an appearance on the “Today” show with Rob Gronkowski to promote a Super Bowl ad for a prostate cancer screening test. The veteran NFL coach is a prostate cancer survivor.<\/p>\n
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The news about Arians’ procedure came at the end of the segment (the 6:38 mark of the video below) when “Today” host Craig Melvin wished the coach good luck, saying he would be watching the Super Bowl from a hospital room. Arians then disclosed he would be having an open heart procedure in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
Arians was a head coach in the NFL for eight seasons, leading the Arizona Cardinals for five seasons (2013-17) before three with the Buccaneers (2019-21). Gronkowski played for him during his final two seasons in Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n
When the Bucs won Super Bowl LV to finish the 2020-21 season, he was the oldest coach to win a championship at 68 years old.<\/p>\n
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Additionally, Arians was the interim head coach for the Indianapolis Colts during the 2012 season while Chuck Pagano underwent treatment for leukemia. In between those head-coaching stints, he spent a year as a game analyst for Fox Sports.<\/p>\n
Prior to becoming a head coach, Arians was a successful offensive coordinator for the Cleveland Browns, Pittsburgh Steelers and Colts. He won two Super Bowl championships while on the Steelers’ staff under Bill Cowher (2005) and Mike Tomlin (2008).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former NFL head coach Bruce Arians, who won Super Bowl LV with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, revealed this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2077],"tags":[390,8550,211,22771,54,104120,7,6496,392,6,20626,104119,242,57,8567,505,104121,29023,704,250,2597,2596],"class_list":["post-720772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa-bay-buccaneers","tag-arizona-cardinals","tag-bruce-arians","tag-buccaneers","tag-chuck-pagano","tag-cleveland-browns","tag-craig-melvin","tag-football","tag-head-coach","tag-indianapolis-colts","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-head-coach","tag-open-heart-surgery","tag-philadelphia","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-rob-gronkowski","tag-super-bowl","tag-super-bowl-ad","tag-super-bowl-lv","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","tag-tampabay","tag-tampabaybuccaneers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115993742449699603","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}