“When Are You Going to Get a Real Job?”: Bill Parcells’ Mom’s Reaction to Him Getting the Giants Head Coach Role

By the time the New York Giants made Bill Parcells their head coach in 1983, he had already worked at Hastings College, Army, Florida State, Vanderbilt, Texas Tech, and Air Force. That’s a lot of moving boxes for someone whose mother kept wondering when the wandering would stop. In a recent discussion on the Football Doesn’t Lie Podcast (via The 33rd Team on X), Bill Parcells shared his mother, Ida Parcells’, reaction to him being announced as the Giants HC after years of exploring multiple coaching roles.