Jimmy Johnson Biography

Fast Facts

• Attended high school with Janis Joplin
• Was an all-conference defensive lineman at the University of Arkansas and was on the school's 1964 national championship team; future Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was also on the squad and he hired Johnson to coach the NFL team in 1989
• First head coaching job was at Oklahoma State (1979-83)
• Wrote an autobiography, Turning the Thing Around: My Life in Football, in 1993
• Had a cameo as himself in the 1998 big-screen comedy The Waterboy, and another as a bearded prisoner in lockup in a 2006 episode of The Shield
• Was the first head coach in football history to win both an NCAA Championship (University of Miami-1987) and a Super Bowl title (Dallas Cowboys-1992 and 1993)
• Coached the Miami Dolphins from 1996-99 before retiring from football to become an NFL analyst on Fox
• Was a contestant on CBS's Survivor: Nicaragua in 2010
• He was the third player voted off the show