Bill Cowher’s House in Raleigh, NC
Prologue - Since so many people visited this particular page recently, I decided to stick a note here since Bill Cowher’s resignation as head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers on January 5th, 2007.
My first Steeler game was in 1993 when my Dad took me to a game at Three Rivers Stadium against the New Orleans Saints (we won 37-14). I’ll admit that I was more of a Pirate fan at the time - who wouldn’t be after the 3 consecutive NL East Pennants? I got my first Terrible Towel that day which I still use, faded as it is. Needless to say I was hooked from that point on. As many people my age have said, Bill Cowher is the only coach that I have known. It was comforting in a way to know, year after year, that Bill and his chin would be roaming the sidelines. It just seemed like it was the way things would always be. Seeing the statistic displaying Bill Cowher as the longest tenured head coach in the league was something I was proud of, feeling it represented the city well. After the incessant speculation of his retirement after this season, I slowly accepted the fact that he would step down. I’m disappointed to say the least, but as for the past 15 years, Bill Cowher has provided some extraordinary memories. We will miss you, Bill!
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A few months ago I ventured into North Raleigh (I also live in Raleigh) to take a look at Bill Cowher’s 2.5 million dollar home. Here are a couple photos:
December 11th, 2006 at 12:46 am
That’s one beautiful mansion I could see why he would want to retire.
December 20th, 2006 at 4:54 am
You and your family deserve every square foot. God Bless
December 31st, 2006 at 11:36 am
Great house, great coach…well deserved…relax, have fun and throw the challenge flag at the big screen TV!
December 31st, 2006 at 2:19 pm
Wow.
January 2nd, 2007 at 1:27 am
Beautiful House Bill…Where is it located by the way? What part of Raleigh?
January 2nd, 2007 at 12:50 pm
Beautiful home Mr.Cower I hope you and your family will be happy in Raleigh. My Grandson lives there and just loves it a city of history, education and sports abounds there.
January 3rd, 2007 at 10:56 am
Beautiful - if thats where he and and family want to be then that is where they should be. God Speed and God Bless!
January 4th, 2007 at 10:30 pm
You will regret quitting the best job in the nfl, good luck taking all the money the redskins offer you next year, hope you like losing.
January 5th, 2007 at 7:53 am
Welcome to NC>>>>>I live in Hikcory…..you will love Raleigh…..maybe someday you will be the Panthers coach.
January 5th, 2007 at 10:26 am
I think it is just amazing how much money people come here and make and then they take their money and leave. We could use the Cowers spending some of that money in the Burg. Not counting the tax dollars on a 2.5 million++++home would give back to the city.
January 5th, 2007 at 11:52 am
Look at what one super bowl win and four AFCC loses “at home” can get you. So Long Bill….it’s about time!!!
January 5th, 2007 at 2:02 pm
It’s spelled Cowher, and if you are going to write something negative, at least have the courage to put your name on it. Anyway, good luck coach, thanks for the memories, great house, enjoy it with your family, you will be missed.
January 5th, 2007 at 7:22 pm
well bill, its been a great run. im going to miss you on the side lines but family should come first and you will never regrett doing this so you will get to be around your family . thanks for all he memeries.
January 6th, 2007 at 12:41 am
Congrats Bill. Great taste in home selection. I was born and raised on the North Side of Pittsburgh and have been in Texas since 1985. Hint…the head coaching job here in Dallas will probably be open in 2008. Just cannot seem to get that “Pittsburgh out of me” as you so well put it today in your final press conference. Will always be a Steeler fan. Thanks for the memories and keeping the proud tradition rolling! God Bless you and your family.
P.S. I cannot tell you how many times I have used the “Y’unz” word here in Dallas and always get strange looks.
Happy New Year!
January 6th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
he didn’t retire. he just resigned. aka he will be back
January 6th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
North Raleigh Of Course!
January 6th, 2007 at 8:21 pm
I have loved watching you and the Steelers for a lot of years. You will be missed big time!
Oh and by the way I am a 49er fan
January 6th, 2007 at 10:18 pm
Ironic that a hometown boy is not happy with only 4 million. Born and raised in a blue collar town where people scrimp and save to go to a game says a lot about the people of Pittsburgh but also a lot about a man who just isn’t making enough in his eyes. It is time to devote more attention to your wife who stood by you and accepted all of your actions, even as inappropriate as they were some time ago when you were anything but honest with her.
January 7th, 2007 at 11:46 am
Coach,
You and your family deserve every bit of it! When I think of my Steelers your name is always connected to it!
Go enjoy, you deserve it coach. God bless!
-Mark
January 7th, 2007 at 11:56 am
Bill I wish you and your family the best, loved watching you and the steelers for a long time. If you decide to come back to the nfl please talk to Rooney, I’d rather not see you on the other side of the field. Good times and good luck!
January 7th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
i live in fla and i love to watch the steeler games and watch your facial expresssions from beginning to end, you
will always be the best steeler coach ever. we will miss you terribly at the start of next season but hopefully you’ll still be involved in the game. good luck to you and your family
January 7th, 2007 at 9:06 pm
Certainly, he retires as he came, a true blue collar man of the people.
January 8th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
Thanks for a great 15 years, with you on the sidelines, no mater how bad it got, I always felt we had a chance to win. Cant wate to see you in the Hall of Fame!!!!!!!!!!!!
January 9th, 2007 at 9:02 am
Bill, you have an amazing home. In fact it should be on MTV cribs. Seriously, you are the best Steelers coach ever and as a Sri Lankan I can say you have been an inspiration to my country!
January 9th, 2007 at 11:37 am
Thanks for sticking with me as long as you did. You believed in me as a QB and I love you for it. I wish my house was that big.
January 9th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
over-rated!!!!!!
January 10th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
Thank you very much for coaching the best organization in the NFL …the Pittsburgh Steelers…Coach Cowher you and I can relate in a similar way we both have three daughters and i know spending time with your pride and joys is very important to you as it is for me to spend time with my daughters….P.S. see you on the side lines where you belong in 2008…lol….i think a year off is enough time..thanks again coach…God be with you and your family
January 10th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
Wait a minute ! I have 4 rings- I’m the best Steeler coach ever !!!
January 11th, 2007 at 10:37 am
Shame on you JC. Thanks for 15 great years coach you will be missed. Good luck to you and your family. I love North Carolina.
January 11th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
My father had a (non-fatal) heart attack during a Steelers game but wouldn’t go to the hospital until Halftime - that’s excitement! Thanks for the great times, Coach! You deserve the Family Time!
Take a job with Dallas at your own peril, though - you know that the ‘burgh has looooong memories!!
January 11th, 2007 at 9:39 pm
You deserve it Bill , but if and when you come back be prepared . HERE WE GO STEELERS HERE WE GO !
January 12th, 2007 at 9:48 am
i love the steeler nation.
January 12th, 2007 at 9:50 am
…..and oh yeah, there are tons…TONS…of steelers fans in NC….proof…steelers vs. panthers in december….half steeler fans in the place. here’s to the 2008 playoffs.
January 12th, 2007 at 4:26 pm
Yes sir, that is one handsome house. I would have loved to have been their realtor.
I’ll admit to being mighty “choked up” as I watched Bill Cowher’s resignation on ESPN from Cary, NC. Been here for 22 years but can still say I’ve lived more than half of my life in Western PA. LOL. Not, for long though! I remember the Chuck Noll years and the extra special ones of 74, 75, 78, 79. It’s a bit about the coach but all about The ‘Burgh and the fans. Steeler fans are THE BEST!
I’ve checked out most of your photos. The photography is awesome. Thank you for sharing. KathyK
January 12th, 2007 at 4:52 pm
I would like to see how many people would stay in the Burg if they had the money to go to N.C. or anywhere. Good luck and have a great life. I do not think that Cower will ever forget the Steelers or Pittsburgh. I love Pittsburgh also, but their is nothing here anymore, the City needs help to keep people here.
January 12th, 2007 at 10:55 pm
Growing up in the 70’s and all the great Super Bowl years as well as the Chuck Noll era I grew up some what spoiled when it came to Steelers football. Coach Cowher your 15 years here brought Steelers football back to the elite. You will be missed by all Steeler fans nationwide. Hope you enjoy your time off and I hope we will see you on the sidelines in the not so distant future.(Just hope it is not on the opposing sideline) Coach good luck and God Bless you will always be a Steeler and a Pittsburgh boy, and one of the greastest coaches ever. Cant wait till that Hall of Fame induction.
January 12th, 2007 at 11:01 pm
Coach Cowher I am sixteen years old and you are the only Steelers coach I’ve known. Thanks for 15 great years, I wish you all the best good luck to you and your family. I’m gonna miss seeing that jaw and seeing the spit fly. God Bless
January 12th, 2007 at 11:41 pm
Yeah granted Pittsburgh doesn’t have the warm climate of nc or cali, mary, but there’s a lot of new business, a great arts community (ever seen the symphony?), world class health facilities and it’s a great overall area for high school and higher education… if youve been paying attention since, well, 1990. That’s not nothing. But getting to the point, I respect the heck out of you Bill and think about coming back after your little sabbatical??
P.S. Don’t bad mouth my ‘Burgh. Best #@$@ city I’ve seen and I’ve been around. A city’s defined by the quality of its people, and Pittsburgh’s got that part down.
January 13th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
Bill,
Good luck and happiness in your new adventures.
Have been a Steeler fan for seventy years. Saw games at Forbes Field, Pitt Stadium & Three Rivers. Moved to Sunset Beach North Carolina twenty five years ago, just down the coast from Bald Head, now here in Ohio.
No matter where you coach, I will always be in your corner.
ee Rivers
January 13th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
I love the Steelers and i love you!!! My family and I will miss you! Good luck!! and of course…GO PITTSBURGH!!!
January 13th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
I love your house!!! My Aunt wants to Marry you or your house i don’t know. Can i have a tour. 724-xxx-xxxx
My parents own the willows INN they have a website that you can see me on.
PS: Come back and coach the steelers “PLEASE”
Robert DiMaggio
January 14th, 2007 at 11:08 am
Bill,
I know I can write everything that I am feeling, however I do want to let you know that I remember when the steelers hired you in 1992, I also thought that (Mean) Joe Green who was also in the running was going to be the choice, anyway I am glad that the Rooney’s pick you.
Thanks for the memories the happy times and the said times I do as I feel all Steeler fans do wonder what if we won all thoose AFC Championship games (again what if)
Thanks again Bill I wish I could write you everything that I am feeling but I’m sure you already know…
ONE MORE THING AND I AM SURE I AM NOT BY MYSELF, I HOPE AND PRAY THAT WHEN YOU DO RETURN THAT THERE ARE TWO JOBS YOU WELL NOT TAKE (THE BROWNS, I AM THINKING THAT CRENNEL ONLY HAS 1 MAYBE 2 YEARS TO TURN THAT TEAM AROUND, IF WE SEE YOU ON THAT SIDELINE IT WOULD BE TO STEELER NATION LIKE IT WAS WHEN THE BROWNS LEFT FOR BALTIMORE DO NOT TAKE THAT JOB… THE OTHER ONE OFCOURSE IS THE COWBOYS AND I’M SURE I DONT HAVE TO EXPLAIN WHY…)
SINCERLY,
MIKE CUTSHAW
PS I WILL BE IN RALEIGH SUNDAY,MONDAY LEAVING TUESDAY NIGHT BUT WOULD LOVE TO COME AND SEE THAT WONDERFUL HOME YOU BOUGHT.
January 14th, 2007 at 8:14 pm
Bill and Family,
Thank you for sharing many years of your life. You deserve the very best of times with your family. I too, am a old Crafton girl now living in the south. Rocky Mount, just down 64 E from you. Love to have you and your family for some good ole pigs in the blankets sometime.
Enjoy your retirement you have earned it. You house is just beautiful.
My mom is 96 and has loved the Steelers ever since I can remember.
sincerely, Peggy
January 14th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
Coach, I could finally sleep at night after the one for the thumb!!Once a Steelers fan, always a Steelers fan. I grew up in the 70s watching the other great teams and knowing all of the players and their numbers would surely come in handy for a game of Steelers trivia. My mom was from Aliquippa and we always watched the games we could get-in Indiana. She would bring home every Friday football and baseball cards and I was just hoping I would get my beloved Pittsburgh players. I always hoped the Pirates would do as well. Seems like yesterday when you were making news by taking the job. THANKS FOR THE GREAT MEMORIES!!!! From the biggest FEMALE Steelers fan there ever was!!
January 15th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
Hey Anonymous if you are not man or woman enough to publish your name then you should keep your negative comments to yourself
January 15th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
well deserved.
January 15th, 2007 at 4:21 pm
Bill will be missed but he has a beautiful place to retire to…Best wishes to him in whatever he decides to do…
January 17th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
I am from Pittsburgh and I now live in Fayettville, about an hour away from Raleigh. I want to truly welcome you and your family to this lovely state, Even though I am a die-hard Steeler fan, I would have to become a fan of the team you ever decided to coach again. Thank you for all the great years at Pittsburgh
January 17th, 2007 at 7:47 pm
You earned every square foot of that beautiful house. Hope you enjoy your time off and you will be missed in the Burgh!
January 17th, 2007 at 9:27 pm
Hope this will not be a part of a divorce settlement. Good Luck Bill and enjoy the year off. Remember the money is not everything.
January 18th, 2007 at 11:39 am
Um, Yeah. Not to mention the girls will be gone soon. Just Bill and his Lovely wife…Um Yeah! DUH! Love you Coach.
January 18th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
It must have been tough to follow coach Knoll, but you did it and you did it with class! You will be missed. Dam nice cribb you got coach!
January 18th, 2007 at 6:55 pm
Coach Cowher,
Good luck to you and your family in your future ambitions, whatever they may be.
Thanks for all the good memories you’ve provided to my family and myself .
I’ve admonished you as well as cursed you over the past 15 years, but in reflection
I will congradulate you on your passion and commitment to the Steelers and the fans!
For as you well know it is passion and love of the game that drives the Steeler Nation!
January 18th, 2007 at 10:32 pm
Mr. Cowher and Family,
I respect what you’ve done for the Steelers and myself as a fan of that wonderful team. I would like to mention that I will also root like hell against you in every game you coach as a non-Steeler, NFL coach. No offense. I think you are a great coach and I wish you hadn’t left. Not that you care, but I felt the same way about Johhny Majors, Jackie Sherill, Scotty Bowman, Walt Harris, and Jim Leyland. It’s just how I am and how I hope Pittsburgh fans are to you when you come back and try to beat us. Would you have it any other way? PS I respect the hell out of you and I would probably have done the same thing. Good luck in everything, Coach.
January 19th, 2007 at 12:00 am
Coach,
Congrats, you deserve every square foot. You are the most underrated coach in the NFL, (Kevin Greene’s words to me at the 1997 Super Bowl). Thank you for last year–I will be at your HOF induction ceremony. God bless, enjoy.
Weav
January 19th, 2007 at 3:02 am
When he’s not out fart’in around in that beautiful yard(or attending b-ball games), he’ll be able to play golf 11 months out of the year
January 19th, 2007 at 6:19 am
Bill, Just remembet when you are on the NFL channel next year don’t spit on Rod Woodson like you used to. He wears really nice suits. Best of luck and remmenber you have a lot of fans over at the Outer banks beaches and Va Beach
January 19th, 2007 at 8:10 am
Sorry that you are gone, Bill, but the organization will survive and prosper in your absence. Too bad that Ben will have more rings that you when he retires….Go Steelers!
January 19th, 2007 at 6:47 pm
~WE’LL MISS U….YOUR ONE OF THE FEW WHO REALIZE HOW MUCH “FAMILY” MEANS & HOW MUCH YA MISS IT WHEN IT’S GONE! MAY YOU & YOURS…ENJOY THE HOUSE & YOUR TIME TOGETHER! WE’RE STILL & “ALWAYS WILL BE” DIE HARD STEELER FANS, BUT SURE WON’T BE QUITE THE SAME W/OUT “THE CHIN” ON SUNDAYS, BUT WE WILL “REGROUP” & I’M SURE AT SOME POINT(*MAYBE IN ‘08) MEET ON THE FIELD AGAIN…..FOR WE’RE ALMOST CERTAIN “YOU WON’T” KEEP UP THOSE ROCK’G CHAIR PAYDAYS FOR LONG! THANKS FOR ALL THE MEMORIES….FROM OUR “LUV YA BLACK & GOLD KREW” TO YOURS!~
January 19th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
BILL YOU DESERVE THE BEAUTIFUL HOUSE GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY STEELER FAN FOR 50 YEARS GOD BLESS
January 19th, 2007 at 9:36 pm
Dear Coach Cowher-
Great house! You deserve to spend time with your family after accomplishing a Super Bowl XL victory and being the longest tenured coach in the NFL. Good luck to the people who have to rewrite the “Here We Go” song!!! You’ve been an integral part of the Pittsburgh community. Best of luck in all of your family’s future endevours.
Sincerely,
Karly Salvio
January 22nd, 2007 at 8:30 am
Bill,
You are a selfish man. You only left the Steelers for the money, not your family. Your true colors will show when you take another job, just for the money. You made yourself the center of the team, always making an ordeal every time there was a replay needed. You would hold the red flag until the cameras focused on you. You had the best team in the AFC at least 5 times, and choked every time except when the team won in spite of you. The only reason you won that Super Bowl was that the team rallied around Jerome Bettis because they wanted to send him into retirement with a Super Bowl. You had absolutely nothing to do with that victory! You blew the other AFC championship games at home. Good riddence. I hope you go to another team and fall on your face.
January 23rd, 2007 at 10:16 am
Thank you to the select few that had the courage to tell the truth about Cowher. If he were truly retiring from coaching, I would say thank you and good luck. But let’s be real. He quit. He did not retire. He smugly made sure he stressed the difference in the press conference when he walked out on the Steelers after helping destroy the team this year with his indecision and the controversy. How many of you bowing to this man will continue to do so when he comes back next year coaching the Bengals or the Browns and kicks the Steelers butts year after year? How many will think of him as a great man if he end’s up coaching the hated Cowboys this season and gets them their 6th Superbowl? That’s what’s in store for this man. He has no loyalty and no honor. How many other coaches would have been given 15 years only to win one Championship? Good riddance and good luck with coaching the likes of Randy Moss and T.O., egos you never had to endure in Pittsburgh.
January 23rd, 2007 at 5:29 pm
hey Cowher Hater, first grow a pair. Then publish your real name and then criticize. Cowher deserves his retirement, that beautiful house and time for his family. If you were a true Pittsburgher, you would be respectful and thank him for all the great years coaching the stillerz.
January 23rd, 2007 at 10:13 pm
THANKS FOR ALL YOU’VE DONE IN MAKING SURE THE STEELERS GOT THEIR 5TH RING. I AM ALSO A STEELERS FAN FOR LIFE.
P.S. PLAY PHYSICAL… YOU WILL BE A MENTOR TO ME.
January 24th, 2007 at 10:52 am
Dear Coach Cowher Hope you have a wonderful time with your family in your beautiful home and enjoy your free time. You wil be missed as the Steeler coach but I wish you the best. Hope the Steelers do well with the new coach. I have been a Steeler fan for over 35 years. I hope we never have to see you on another side line coaching in the future but if we do I wish you only the best in all you do. You were a Great Coach and you will be missed. God Bless you and your family. Love Peggy
January 25th, 2007 at 7:33 pm
Oh my Goodness what a beautiful home, good luck in your future endorors, thanks for a great ride, enjoy retirement, your family and new home. God Bless
January 26th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
Couch Cowher you will be missed not just by the fans there in Pittsburgh but fans around the league. you are a great person in the world of the NFL. And i wish you the best in whatever you choose to do now. I live in Nashville and a titans fan but you are still a favorite of mine you did a 10STAR job in Pittsburgh.
January 28th, 2007 at 9:34 am
ALL OF YOU THAT TOOK HIS RESINGNATION AS RETIREMENT WILL BE SAD TO SEE HIM COACHING ANOTHER TEAM AND BEATING UP ON THE STEELERS IN 2008
January 28th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
Hey Dave, open your eyes that are blinded by your Black and Gold stupidity. Cowher quit on us last year!!! He is not quitting to spend time with his family!! He looked for a convenient exit so he could get more money. If his family was so important, why did he wait until his two oldest girls were in college to quit? He missed their entire high school years. Now he has one daughter left in high school (with only 1 year left) and he decides to move further away from the two daughters in Princeton? Give me a break! You can’t see this? He will be coaching the Washington Redskins in 2008 after Daniel Snyder gives him $10 million a year, which is what he wanted to stay here. If he was given $10 million per year in his contact extension offer with the Steelers, he would still be here and you would not be defending him. One Super Bowl in 15 years is not a hall of fame coach. He sucks and I hope he falls on his face when he comes back in 2008! Cowher Flower!
January 28th, 2007 at 5:33 pm
Awesome pictures! My husband and I are on a “30 year work visa” in Atlanta (only 10 more years to go) and we miss Pittsburgh something fierce. Our sons have spent their whole long lives (11 and 10 years respectively) in Georgia, but when asked where they are from, they always proudly say PITTSBURGH! Great shots of the greatest city in the world
January 29th, 2007 at 10:51 pm
THANKS FOR A GREAT RUN!! Will miss seeing you on the field and at 7 Springs. All the best to you man, you earned it long ago!
January 30th, 2007 at 5:45 am
Bill,
I’m a Browns fun and that’s saying a lot based on the past few years. It’s easy to follow a winner but it takes a strong gut to stand behind them when they lose year after year. When you come back to the NFL, and you will, come back to where you started. Come back as the Browns coach and learn to have a pit in you gut at the sight of the Steelers stadium. Thank goodness Three Rivers is in a landfill somewhere.
January 31st, 2007 at 9:51 am
MR. Cowher,
I have been living in Houston since 1980 and my blood still runs black and gold. We are the MOST loyal fans in the world… we never change colors. I am proud to be from the ‘burgh’ and look forward to coming back each summer to enjoy the flavor of the most beautiful city in this great country.
Thank you for your years of service. I was saddened when Chuck left. And now, saddened again…another era is done…. and whomever replaces you has huge shoes to fill!
Thank you,
Janet Lee E.
February 1st, 2007 at 9:03 am
Hey Bill:
I moved away from Pitsburgh 30 years age and have always been a Steeler Fan. I lived in Phoenix for 15 years and now in Parker, CO and everywhere I go I always see Steeler shirts and coats. Us Steeler Fans are very loyal and as they say - “Once a Steeler Fan - ALWAYS”! Good luck for all your future endeavors and continue to represent Pittsburgh with PRIDE.
You Go Bill!! Janice
February 2nd, 2007 at 12:29 pm
Statistically speaking, the chance of going to the Super Bowl is 1 in 16 years and the chance of winning the Super Bowl is 1 in 32 years. Coach Cowher went twice and won once in a 15 year period. I’ve been a Steelers fan since 1979 so I don’t think that it’s a big deal to dwell on the playoffs not won. The playoffs and Super Bowl are both fickle things - the best team, the best QB, the best coach doesn’t necessarily win. Sometimes, it’s an intangible (such as the desire to win for Jerome Bettis last year) that can give you the ring. I wish nothing but the best for you, Coach Cowher. Thank you for a job well done!! P. S. Please don’t come back to the NFL to coach another team. NC State Wolfpack is okay!!
February 4th, 2007 at 9:46 pm
You’ve come a long way since Beechwood School. Chester Adams must be a proud of you as the rest of us. Godspeed.
February 6th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
Bill put in a good 14 years….too bad he didn’t care enough to coach in the 15th year. he should give the money back to the city of pittsburgh that he didn’t earn in the 2006 season.
I will show Pittsburgh how a real coach works!
February 8th, 2007 at 6:51 pm
Coach Cowher, you have put in 14 years. It is your life to choose what you want to do with it. I have to agree with the other writer that said that if you do come back to the NFL, do not coach the Browns or the Cowboys. That would just not be right! I might live in Ohio but I am and always will be a Steelers fan! Thanks for the wonderful memories.
February 10th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
Coach Cowher,
My family and I wish you lots of luck and happiness in your beautiful new home. You will be missed in Pittsburgh. I do however, somewhat agree with some of the comments of others, why not just admit that you left because of the $$$$$, not to spend time with the family. If that were the case, you already missed their highschool years and most of your youngest daughter’s senior year. That leads us to believe it IS all about the money. Just remember, the money you made in Pittsburgh is why you were able to afford that beautiful house in NC and you and your family were able to live a pretty good lifestyle. I think you left your players and fan high and dry!!!
Good luck.
P.S. How do you like the Spitfire??
February 17th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
I miss you so much! I hope you are having a great time in NC. Can’t wait to see you on CBS!!!
February 18th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
Home is where the heart is. Both Raleigh and the Burg will share.
February 20th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
I am a Steelers FAN, i been to every game since 1970, I wish i never spent my hard earned money in the stands, from 1993 thru 2004, while cowher mother, father, wife and kids where in there heated seats, with food and dirnk. while i paid for his $2 mill home, and he can’t even do his last year for 4 mill dollars. Give this money to all the fans that spend years watching the steeler in the stands, how about bringing the price of tickets down, so we can buy some food and drink at the goames too.
February 22nd, 2007 at 6:17 am
We paid for the steelers stadium, we pay cowher paycheck, what did we the steelers fans really get in 15 years, please someone tell us?????????????????. Higher ticket prices. A coach that abandon us in his last year to go to work for CBS Sports. Tell us this was not preplanned.
February 22nd, 2007 at 8:29 am
Coach Hater; or Cowher Hater; Sir you give this person to much credit, even if he did win a super bowl, it would take him 15 years to win one. As to beat the steelers, he couldn’t, if he had all the best players in the NFL. He’s just a average coach, in 2006 it was luck, with all the tun-overs ever game. And Sir i am a BIG STEELER FAN> #1
February 26th, 2007 at 12:54 am
Coach Cowher was a decent employee of the ROONEY”S. It’s the Rooney’s that have created one of the NFL’s most respected organizations. It’s the Rooney’s that keep some semblance of sanity in an insane business - and I stress the word business. It’s the Rooney’s that gave Coach Cowher an opportunity. Talk of Hall of Fame credentials for Cowher seem a little shallow when you remember how the Steeler’s were out coached in numerous playoff games. He’ll never be confused with Belichick game day coaching. While I’m not his biggest fan, I am a lifelong Steeler fan. Let’s give Coach Cohwer his due. He was great with personnel. He mirrored the blue colar mentality of Pgh. And he never embarassed the organizaiton or the city- which is no given these days. As any hard-working person, he deserves to enjoy the fruits of his efforts, and if he and his wife decide to enjoy that fruit in Raleigh, that’s there decision - God Bless ‘em.
February 26th, 2007 at 3:10 am
THANK YOU COACH COWHER FOR ALL YOU HAVE DONE FOR THE STEELERS. THANK YOU MRS, COWHER, AND DAUGHTERS, FOR GIVING US 90% OF YOUR HUSBAND/FATHERS TIME FOR ALL OF THESE YEARS.
WHATEVER THIS NEXT PAGE OF YOUR LIVES BRINGS..I WISH YOU ALL WELL.
BE HAPPY, GOS BLESS.
HEINZ FIELD, SECT. 107 ROW W SEATS 20,21,22
February 26th, 2007 at 6:37 am
Be for real, We the Pittburgh fans and all over the are keep the ROONEY’s in business, if we didn’t go to the games Cowher and the Rooney’s would not be living in there BIG BIG houses. Cowher mirror the blue colar image give us all a break. BULL., hard working, please.
February 26th, 2007 at 9:39 am
Hey Marsz, what have they done for the steelers, we pay the bills, we buy there products, what did that coach do for the area he was raised in. He lives in Ral, NC. Thats not contributing to our area. At least most of the steeler now and past after retiring stay in the area, i’m sorry that man did’nt retire he resigned. Give his 4.4 mil salary back to the are of Pittsburgh and the fans, who pay the bills.
February 26th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
Hey Bill, Will you rent me a room? I want to live in that mansion, seems that you have plenty of space!! Go Steelers!! Hi Mom!!
February 26th, 2007 at 11:45 pm
I am not originally from Pittsburgh, but I reside here now. What I have seen from the many Steelers’ fans in the past, is loyalty, pride and investment into the team, it’s players, coaching staff and management. What I see from them now, is a two-faced, childish bitterness and anger toward Bill Cowher (yes, that is indeed the correct spelling), who was successful and is now retiring and has earned every cent that went into this house — or for that matter, any house that he owns. I sense envy? Regardless of what the circumstances are, I wish Bill Cowher and his family all of the best. If others can retire from good jobs with good money and move wherever they want, he should be able to do the same, without scrutiny! So get over it, people, and find something more constructive to say.
February 27th, 2007 at 6:21 am
Lisa C., That man didn’t retire, he wanted more money than the steelers would pay, betting on a 2006 winning season, by extentiion, but Big Ben got hurt, and not lucky like before, so that man quit.
February 27th, 2007 at 6:34 am
Lisa C., The Steelers fans give there time, money, and support, even when these coaches make stupid decsions. So we have the right to critisize, what we think is bogus. Hi price of tickets, or a coach quiting because he didn’t get the paycheck he wanted. GO STEELERs, the steeler is not one person, it’s the team and its fans.
February 27th, 2007 at 6:54 am
Lisa C., do you work for Mr Rooney, or the City of Pittsburgh.
February 27th, 2007 at 8:47 am
Let’s talk of the Steeler Nation….. I was embarking of a Royal Caribbeean cruise with my Mom and my son. As they were wecoming us aboard….. I was like (Pgh thing)….. We are going to be watching athe Super Bowl right..because I’d never have booked this trip if I realized. They said, well not sure but we will do our best. I said, well, NO. I won’t embark. Where is the Captain?
Well, we had the game, we decoratede a sports bar and I could not fathom how much Steeler Stuff was flying out of everyone’s luggage. One of the best days of my life….I can still hear screaming………….Who ya with????????????
Bill you are awesome but special thianks to your wife and daughters for sharing with us.
February 28th, 2007 at 7:53 am
The Steelers are more than it’s organization, its the people who support it, and the Area of pittsburgh. We have the right to complain about anything we don’t think is right. Other wise some of these people need spelling lessions and writing lessions. esp janny grace, please get help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! no being mean.
March 1st, 2007 at 1:10 pm
love you Cowher; love Pittsburgh and love the Steeler nation more. Don’t care where you live. But if you are thinking of working again please come to Washington, DC. We could use a great coach and not far from NC!!.
March 1st, 2007 at 2:33 pm
Ya Cowher, go to Washington so we the steelers can kick your loser butt. GO STEELERS
March 6th, 2007 at 3:09 am
Very well done, Sir. You will be sorely missed.
March 7th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
Great pictures. I was born and raised in Pittsburgh. I would have liked to have seen some photos of the Hill District.This
African-American community deserve to be included. I now live in Graham, N.C. My family still lives in Pgh. Still you did a
great job.
March 8th, 2007 at 8:32 pm
I hope you and your wife enjoy this nice house. The Steelers Nation were lucky to have you. Thanks for believing in me all these years and thanks for turning me into a great WR. I will miss laughing at everything you say on the sideline and in the locker room. I hope you enjoy your superbowl ring (i will enjoy mine). I hope that i never have to play you in a NFL game again. We have lost you and now Joey [Porter]. I dont know who can replace you. Mr. Tomlin is nice and has a good mind. I hope you enjoy life in NC. I will miss you and hope you visit soon. Always remeber that Pittsburgh’s door will always be opened to such a great coach for the Steelers. If you decide to go to another NFL team just make sure its not the Bengals, Browns, or Ravens. just kidding Bill. Good Luck i dont know what we will do without you and Joey. I hope to see you on TV soon. I will never forget the meromies you brought to me like the Super Bowl, the parade, spring training, and practice. GOD BLESS YOU BILL, I WILL NEVER FORGET YOU
P.S I wish me house was this big. enjoy the house, the ring, and your family and retirement. Just sit back and relax
March 9th, 2007 at 5:02 pm
Beautiful House & Well Deserved…I dont blame you for going South! You paid your dues in Pittsburgh…now your only missing the steeler flag in the front yard
March 11th, 2007 at 9:54 pm
I was born and raised in Pittsburgh for 32 years of my life. Have been a die-hard Stiller fan and always will be. They are my guys. Live in Charlotte, N.C. now. Enjoy the Carolina’s. They are beautiful states. Hated to see you go. You will always be a coach of the PITTSBURGH STEELERS. I do believe that you will be back coaching, and this time you will be our rival. Can’t wait to beat your team and put it in your face. Enjoy your house and your family.
March 20th, 2007 at 8:51 am
It’s Tony Soprano’s house! Coach, hope you and Carmela can work things out there! Pittsburgh will only hate you if you come back in a year and take Dan Snyder’s money to run the Redskins. In that case, please leave us with our memories and don’t ever return to 412.
March 22nd, 2007 at 12:36 pm
hey cowher, go coach another team please, so the steelers can kick your teams butt.
March 26th, 2007 at 3:09 pm
Bill,
Job well done…Enjoy your new life!!!
March 28th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
Sick house Bill. You will be missed, however the city of champions will not mourn. We will only find ways to get better. No one, not even Coach Cowher can hold the ‘Lers down….we are too sinseriously sick. No one plays smash mouth ball like the black and gold.
I’ve got a hunger, a hunger that grows deep inside of me. The hunger is for my second hand to start collecting rings and for the Steelers to go down in the record books as the greatest team of all time!
Here We Go!
April 4th, 2007 at 9:03 am
Well, sounds like theres a shipload of people with reasoning to hate or “be jealous” of Mr. Bill. I guess you have that right, but as true fans, you should have protested by not going to games if he “didnt” live up to your expectations. How many CEO’s would still have their jobs if they performed like Mr. Bill? Some say alot some say none.
Either way, its nice to see both support and angst.
I am in support of passion. I thank everyone for commenting - taking the time - showing everyone else who reads the comments related to this site, that “Pixburgers if nothing else - LOVE their town, their family and their SPORTS”!
Thanks again!
April 10th, 2007 at 8:19 am
Why could you have built your house in pittsburgh are, shows what a pittsburgh person he is. be gone, your not a true pittsburgher
April 12th, 2007 at 8:15 am
What a beutiful home for you and your family to enjoy. Our family has truly enjoyed your years as the Steeler coach. We were born and raised in Pittsburgh. Have lived in Colorado, New Mexico and Texas and no matter where we have lived, we were and are die hard Steeler Fans. Our sons living in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas as well as their sons are continuing on the Steeler Fan tradition. Good luck and God Bless you and the family in the future.
April 15th, 2007 at 11:17 am
BILL & FAMILY:
YOUR HOME IS BEAUTYFUL! I CAN ONLY DREAM OF HAVING A HOME THIS WONDERFUL. YOU WORKED VERY HARD FOR THIS HOME. ENJOY EVERY MOMENT OF IT. YOU & YOUR FAMILY DESREVE EVERY BIT OF IT! WE WILL MISS YOU IN PITTSBURGH. PLEASE COME BACK TO VISIT WHEN YOU START TO HAVE WITHDRAW:)
April 20th, 2007 at 10:00 am
A pro-foot ball coach works hard, HA HA HA, what a joke!!!!!!!!!!!!!, they only got big mouthes.
April 24th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
Hey the Cowhers are in town to sell off 400 items in the Fox Chapel…..Guess they don’t fit into their 2 new digs….Or maybe they are leaving everything bad that happened to them in the Burg….Maybe they have a bad taste for the city…..Wonder if any of the rumors are true????? So long Bill and Family home your happiness last a very long time….Mr Cowher wants to be a movie star that’s why he is going on CBS, and won’t it be great to have to look at him and him not coaching…HUM, HUM…….Enjoy that Pittsburgh Money Cowher family
April 29th, 2007 at 8:53 am
Mr. Cowher,
Although I think you did an outstanding job with the Steelers, I must agree with Mr. Noll. 4 rings = best Steeler’s Coach ever. Enjoy your retirement. I’m sure no-one needs to twist your arm! You deserve to relax. Hope there’s a hammock hanging out back somewhere!
April 30th, 2007 at 4:26 pm
Hello coach.. I just wanted to let you know i was very upset when you left. I have been a steelers fan since i was 4 yrs. old. I know you needed some time and glad you got it. I hope to see you in football again. “ONLY IN PITTSBURGH”
May 1st, 2007 at 11:27 am
Hey coach, y don’t you give the money for your 400 items to the poor in the pittsburgh area.
May 1st, 2007 at 11:30 am
Hi coach, i just want to say, thats a great idea, about 400 items from your old house, that money would do some good for the not so lucky in pittsburgh.
May 26th, 2007 at 8:17 pm
15 years of unmatched success and a Super Bowl title when he finally got a championship-caliber QB. It’s amazing that some Steeler fans can be bitter towards him for leaving. Good luck, Bill … it was a great era.
May 26th, 2007 at 8:22 pm
I am glad Bill is out of the division, because he was making me look bad. My image as an offensive genius is in jeopardy when the Cowher D holds my team to 85 passing yards year after year. I still have to deal with that dancing, egomaniacal felon Ray Lewis, but now I may have some kind of hope for the future.
May 30th, 2007 at 8:57 pm
Bill Im a fan from the stands and injoyed every game you coached loved every one of theam even the ones that dident go our way but thats football ! a real grate job. injoy life and family where ever it takes you . and Bill some of the Bitter comments made are just selfeish fans pay no attention . God Bless The Cower Family
July 4th, 2007 at 9:23 pm
overrated coach, i mean he wins a super bowl and the next season (well can you call that a season) doesn’t try and then just walks out on the team and the city of Pittsburgh. Go down the NC and stay down there…don’t come back up to the city who you abandoned.
July 10th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
Hey guys, it’s spelled TEAM. Committment starts at the top, it runs through all the coaches, the players, the trainers, and finds it’s heart in the fans. I remember Bobby Lane and Big Daddy Lipskin. We didn’t always win, but we always gave more than we got, that is the Pittsburgh way. It infects every player that comes to Pittsburgh. I wish Bill the best, he earned it. Chuck Nole was tactiturn and we loved him for it. Bill, jutting jaw, spittle flying, veins popping was a whole nuther thing, and we loved him for it. The new coach knows we have his back, win or lose, because we are Pittsburghers!
Go Steelers, and Big Ben!
July 14th, 2007 at 9:00 am
Mr. Cowher, I just wanted to say thanks for a great 15 year run! Enjoy your life, your family and whatever you decide to do. I hope to see you again in football soon. I would love if it was with the STEELERS. But your face and football go together. So even if its not with the STEELERS it would be good to see you again! Thanks!! Sam
July 14th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
Mr.Cowher, Pittsburgh is were I was Born at 17yrs. I moved to Az. Beleive it or not You have fans in Az. that are Az. born people that when the STEELERS but when the Steelers are playin my House has Steelers all over it, and always will be ,
July 17th, 2007 at 6:58 pm
He is TOTALLY welcome to North Carolina, and the Raleigh area…the CAROLINA PANTHERS are my team, but I have ALOT of respect for this man
August 6th, 2007 at 8:45 am
I grew up at 99 Hawthorne Avenue in Crafton - just down the street from the first Cowher home. Crafton will always be “home” for me - even though I haven’t lived there for more than 30 years. Enjoy your new home Coach, it’s beautiful. Thanks for representing the City of Pittsburgh in such a positive way. We miss you.
August 9th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
gob bless your new life, you sacraficed so much for us in pittsburgh,you deserve the best
August 13th, 2007 at 1:36 am
Dear Daddy Bill your my hero I adopted you long ago and you made all of us proud I have been a steeler fan since I was knee high to a grasshopper and I hope you will be happy in Raleigh I have family in Cary .Godbless you and your family and thanks again for the last 15 years and maybe one day you will be back in the game and no matter whom it might be I wish you luck and love
August 23rd, 2007 at 1:56 pm
Bill, we grew up in the very same area of Pittsburgh, in fact, had my first job in the crafton shopping center. Thanks for all the fun and the memories, I won’t ever forget you! I can imagine all the time and constant work it takes to be a coach in the NFL, pressures must be incredible. People, lets put the negative comments to rest and be grateful for the time we have had. Bill, take care and enjoy your time off.
August 26th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
Dear Bill and Kaye, Thank you so much for what you have done and given the city of Pittsburgh. My family and I have been lifelong Steelers fans and never missed watching the games on t.v. My brother-in-law and his family watch from Barstow and Phoenix. My sister has Steelers parties in St. Louis. My daughter, son-in-law cheer on the Steelers from Arlington, VA. And last but not least, our son cheers on the Steelers from Raleigh, where else!!!! Remember the nice man that sold you the water vac? We all will miss seeing you on the sidelines. Congratulations on your much deserved retirement and best wishes for whatever the future brings. Retirement is wonderful, take it from someone who is and loves every minute. ENJOY!
August 27th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
Bill Cowher deserves this beautiful house, even if it is in another state. His wife sacrificed moving to Pgh. for him, now it’s his turn to move to her hometown. What a beautiful home! I know Mary Ann M. is kicking herself now, because she broke up with Bill in H.S. @ Carlynton. We always joke that she could’ve been Mrs. Bill Cowher………she blew it though! Hey Bill, she’s still single……ok, ok, just kiddin……I can’t say enough about how proud Bill has made all of us Pgh’ers. I remember we had jury duty sometime in 2002 and Bill was soo humble. That’s what I remember most about him.
August 30th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
Very nice house. But I have to say Chuck Noll did one hell of a job with the steelers. But Bill was there for Pittsburgh. And we owe him alot of credit.
September 6th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
Our money bought that house for him. Wasn’t that nice of us?
September 8th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Anyone want a picture of the house Bill grew up in?
September 17th, 2007 at 3:44 pm
Saw Cowher’s house live and it’s really beautiful but it is only a small house compared to some of the other houses in the same area. There are some big time mansions in his “hood”.
September 29th, 2007 at 10:03 am
WE didn’t pay for that house. Coach Cowher earned it. If any of you haters out there feel otherwise, you aren’t real Steeler fans, so just let it go. If you think for one minute that any other person would have given us as much success as this coach did, you are seriously mistaken. Any other coach, and they wouldn’t have the one for the thumb yet. Good luck in the future Coach.
October 3rd, 2007 at 9:38 am
I sure love that house. And I miss Bill as our coach. Its just not the same. Guess we’ll eventually get use to it.
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:37 am
GREAT HOUSE! YOU HAD A GREAT CAREER IN THE PROS. HOW ABOUT GIVE COLLEGE COACHING A TRY. CLEMSON HOPEFULLY WILL BE NEEDING A NEW COACH AFTER THIS SEASON. JUST A THOUGHT!!!!!
October 5th, 2007 at 6:03 am
Awesome pics…thanks. Wonderful comments as well. I will miss his passion so much. I hear he may be the new Giants coach next year. That wouldn’t be such a bad thing. I live in the Finger Lakes of upstate NY so I like the NY teams too, but of course, my dad was from Pittsburgh and he passed away in 1999 so I’m carrying the Pittsburgh legacy in my family; that’s where he was born and raised. He knew the Rooneys and loved them. Well, this is fun! Kath Fuchs, Geneva, New York
November 15th, 2007 at 11:20 pm
ur a traitor… u left pittsburgh when it needs you most.. what is wrong with you people…. pittsburgh is dying right in front of our eyes yet we do nothing to help our beautiful city… you move away and say you are pittsburgheres.. meanwhile you are not… true pittsburghers woulnt leave there city to die
December 4th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
SWEEEEEEEET SHACK!
January 18th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
im looking at the tax records for William L and Brenda K cowher in raleigh (wake county) N.C.. And thats not the house that bill cowher lives in. This is a link to prove it, the government does not lie. navigate through the pictures and profile to see for youself. These pictures maybe the old house.
http://aws1.co.wake.nc.us/realestate/Account.asp?id=0069078&stype=owner&owner=cowher&spg=1&cd=01&loc=1225++BRIAR+PATCH+LN&des=LO9+N+RDG+NEWMKT+WY+BL3&pin=1717334057
January 18th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
The house is registered under a trust, not the actual name.
January 20th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
Stephen is right with his info. I have family on that street and they just had a house torn down to build their new home. Not sure what photo this is. Two homes is Raleigh?
January 20th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
http://www.newsobserver.com/122/story/412472.html if you want the name of the trust the house is under.
April 1st, 2008 at 12:15 pm
I think Cowher had that house pictured above first, and then sold it and bought this other house featured in steven g’s tax link. They have torn that white house down to build a new house. This particular house (briar patch lane) backs up to a golf course. My mom lives in that neighborhood.
April 1st, 2008 at 12:20 pm
here’s the deal:
http://www.newsobserver.com/sports/story/982574.html