This year, Marv Levy, A.M. '51, who led the Buffalo Bills to four straight Super Bowl appearances--a feat matched by no other coach--was inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. It's on any broad … Marv Levy, a Bills’ legend, knows better than anyone what winning a Super Bowl would mean to Buffalo. document.write('Bookmark US!'); "You are surrounded by these great role models, playing a game that's energizing--and that's your life's work? var url="http://www.leasingnews.org"; And smote off Sir Andrew's head; Marv Levy, who coached the Bills to four straight Super Bowls in the 1990s, said having players with high character was essential to overcoming adversity. Through this hard time i’ve been going through, it really does make me a stronger person. He caused his body to be taken down, Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. document.write('ernal.AddFavorite(url,title);" '); In fact things get less complicated. The Scots stood by and did weep and mourn, How lucky can you get? The coach recalled a four-line poem from a book his mother had given him that read: “Fight on, my men, Sir Andrew said, A little I’m hurt but not yet slain. "Losing each one was tremendously disappointing," says Levy, who was 65 when the streak began. ", Levy's coaching career began at St. Louis Country Day School, and included college jobs at Coe, New Mexico, William and Mary, and Berkeley, where future San Francisco 49er coach Bill Walsh was his assistant. ( Log Out / ( Log Out / In 1978 he got his first NFL head coaching job with the Kansas City Chiefs and joined the Bills in 1986, staying through the 1997 season. To win you first must suffer. However it seems that this one in particular was filled with many more valleys then hills. This poem helped him get through some of the toughest defeats, including 4 super bowl losses. '; return true "); His NFL teams compiled a regular-season record of 143-112 and went 11-8 in the postseason. This summer I made a point of not letting that hurt take over because it does no one any good if it does. Once I obtained it, it was great don’t get me wrong but I realized that even without it, for breif periods of time will not kill someone. The only way to win a Super Bowl is to get into it." August 22, 2007 at 3:01 am. The original went like this: “Fight on, my men,” says Sir Andrew Barton, This entry was posted on August 20, 2007 at 4:13 pm and filed under Uncategorized. I don’t understand most of it, people hand me the things happen for a reason line but when your bitter and callous you don’t want to hear that. I’d also heard the quote from Marv Levy and tracked down the poem. After the first loss, a 20-19 heartbreaker to the New York Giants, the coach recalled a small book of poetry his mother had given him when he went into the service, and typed out four lines from an unknown British poet: "Eight or ten players came up and asked for a copy of that poem," says Levy, who on another occasion cited Hemingway's definition of character as "grace under pressure," suggesting why one newspaper called him a "Renaissance man on the sidelines. Jim Harbaugh quotes Sir Andrew on Ohio State loss: 'I'll rise to fight again' ... and Harbaugh is already quoting poems about 15th Century Scottish sailors. The Author is never mentioned and book goes onto mention there are other lines to that poem but for the author who included the poem into his book and myself, we both feel that these lines encapsulate our feelings on a certain subject. Levy used it before every game for 44 years. "Fight on, my men,” Sir Andrew Said “A little I’m hurt but not yet slain. When Levy took charge of the New Mexico program, he was the youngest head coach of a major college team in America, and by 1994 he had become the NFL's oldest head coach. Instead of getting upset at other people, and as he describes it, falling on the floor in the fetal position, he challenged himself every time to improve, and while a super bowl championship was never hoisted, and Buffalo saw 4 straight defeats, Marv Levy proved what life is pretty much all about. "I'd like to be able to say that we won one of them, or all four, but that's not going to change. } The coach recalled a four-line poem from a book his mother had given him that read: “Fight on, my men, Sir Andrew said, A little I’m hurt but not yet slain. But still this poem came at the right time for me. I didn’t miss a 45 yard field goal wide right. Josh Allen is the right QB to lead this team.