Rivera: Not Just Another Game
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) – Most NFL coaches and players tend to downplay the significance of returning to the place where they once worked.
Not Carolina Panthers coach Ron Rivera.
Rivera returns Sunday to Chicago where he spent nine seasons playing linebacker for the Bears and another five as a defensive coach. He makes it clear winning this game means a great deal to him.
The coach says he is not going to downplay the game. Rivera says “some people would say it’s just another game; no it’s not.” He says all NFL games are big, but “this has a little personal meaning for me because it’s Chicago.”
Rivera and his wife raised their kids in Chicago and lived there for 18 years.
Rivera joined the Bears as a second round pick out of Cal in 1984 and spent nine seasons with the Bears.
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