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Mike Tomlin is the current head coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers in the National Football League. He has held the position of head coach with the franchise for 16 years. He is undoubtedly the most successful head coach in NFL history.
Tomlin joined the Steelers in 2007 and has led the team to ten playoffs, seven division titles, three AFC Championship Games, two Super Bowl appearances and a Super Bowl title in 2009.
He became the youngest head coach at 36 to win a Super Bowl. The record was later broken by Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay, who won the Super Bowl LVI in 2022, aged 36 years and 20 days. Tomlin was six weeks shy of his 37th birthday when he lifted the big trophy.
Another achievement for Mike Tomlin is that he has never had a losing season in his 16 years in the NFL. It is one of the longest winning streaks in the history of the NFL. He has a winning record of 162-93-2.
The Steelers have been eliminated from playoff contention and are placed third in the AFC North with a 9-8 record. Under Tomlin, the Steelers went 8-8 thrice in 2012, 2013 and 2019, but it cannot be considered a losing season. To have a losing season, a team has to lose more games than it wins.
Here is a table showing Mike Tomlin's head coaching record:
Mike Tomlin's NFL coaching history
Mike Tomlin started his coaching career in 2001 with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers under head coach Tony Dungy as the defensive backs coach.
He served the Buccaneers until 2005 and played an important role when the Bucs won Super Bowl XXXVII in January 2003. Then, John Gruden became the youngest head coach at 39 to win the Super Bowl title.
The Minnesota Vikings acquired Mike Tomlin in 2006 to be their defensive coordinator. He spent a year with the Vikings, and the following year he interviewed for the vacant head coach position at the Pittsburgh Steelers.
With only a year of experience as a defensive coordinator, Tomlin was selected by the Steelers in January 2007. He became the sixteenth head coach and the first African-American head coach in Steelers head coaching history.
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Tomlin was named the 2008 Motorola NFL Coach of the Year on January 29, 2009. In the same year, Tomlin became the youngest head coach in Super Bowl history when the Steelers defeated the Arizona Cardinals in Super Bowl XLIII on February 1, 2009, at the age of 36.
He beat the previous record set by Buccaneers head coach Jon Gruden, who hired him as a defensive backs coach in 2003.
