Table of Biography
Jimmy Johnson is an American football coach former player, and executive. Jimmy Johnson is the sports broadcaster for ‘Fox Sports.
Early Life and Childhood
Jimmy Johnson was born on 16th July 1943 and is currently 80 years old. His zodiac sign is Cancer. Likewise, he was born in Port Arthur, Texas, United States of America, and is American by nationality. He follows Christianity. He is the son of C.W. Johnson Jr. and Allene Johnson.
However, there is no information about his parents’ names. Likewise, about his siblings, he has two brothers.
However, he has not shared their information but has shared their childhood pictures on his Instagram account.
Caption: Childhood picture of Jimmy with his father along with his siblings. Source: Instagram
Education
Furthermore, reflecting upon his educational background, Jimmy completed his high school at Jefferson High School. It was later renamed Memorial High School.
He was a fellow mate with rock icon Janis Joplin and actor G.W. Bailey. Likewise, for his further education, he attended the University of Arkansas however, he has not shared the major he chose.
During his college days, he used to play on the college soccer team. He was an all-Southwest Conference defensive lineman for coach Frank Broyles on the Arkansas Razorbacks football team.
Likewise, his teammates were Jerry Jones, Ken Hatfield, Jim Lindsey, Ronnie Caveness, and Loyd Phillips. Moreover, there were other assistant coaches like Hayden Fry, Johnny Majors, and Barry Switzer for Broyles and the Razorbacks during his career in Fayetteville.
Likewise, the 1964 Razorbacks squad was undefeated and it was later titled a national champion by the ‘Football Writers Association of America’.
He was given the nickname ‘Jimmy Jumpup’ by his fans for never staying down on the ground for long during football practices or games.
Achievements
Throughout his career as a coach in American football history, Jimmy has received many wins and losses in the match. Likewise, he has been inducted into many Hall of Fame, including the University of Miami Sports Hall of Fame, and ‘The College Football Hall of Fame.
Moreover, it was announced to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame on 12th January 2020. Besides this, he was honored with the AP Coach of the Year in 1999 by NFL Honors. Additionally, he received the Best Coach ESPY Award in the year 1994.
Jimmy Johnson – Net Worth 2024
He is one of the legends of American football coaching history. He is popular for his career in coaching the NFL and later as a television football analyst. Throughout his career, he has received name and fame. His net worth is $40 million.
Relationship Status
Jimmy Johnson is straight and married to Rhonda Rookmaker. However, he was previously in a married relationship with Linda Kay Cooper and has two sons together, Brent Johnson and Chad Johnson.
The relationship did not last long and ended in January 1990. He divorced his first wife shortly after joining the Dallas Cowboys.
Caption: Jimmy Johnson along with his wife. Source: Instagram
Early Coaching Career
After graduating from college, Jimmy Johnson started his career as an assistant coach for Louisiana Tech University in the year 1965. Likewise, he helped Terry Bradshaw to start quarterback in Shreveport, Louisiana.
Later he became an assistant coach at Picayune Memorial High School, then at Wichita State University. Following this in the years 1968 and 1969, he worked under former American football player Johnny Mayor at Iowa State University.
Similarly, he became the defensive line coach under head coach Chuck Fairbanks at the University of Oklahoma.
Furthermore, he worked as a defensive coordinator after returning to Arkansas through the 1976 season.
Likewise, he worked at the University of Pittsburgh as the assistant head coach and defensive coordinator under Jackie Sherrill. Similarly, he worked as a coach at the University of Miami.
Oklahoma State
After working for more than a decade as an assistant coach, he got his first head coaching job in the year 1979 at Oklahoma State University.
In this tenure of coaching for five seasons, he led the Cowboys to an 8-4 record and a 24-14 victory over 20th-ranked Baylor in the Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl.
Moreover, after coaching here he was offered the head coaching job at the University of Miami. Initially, he was confused about taking this job but after his friend, Larry Lacewell was convinced he accepted the head coaching job.
University of Miami
Jimmy replaced the former coach Howard Schnellenberger. With full responsibility, he started his career with a shaky 8-5 record in the first season.
This game was a blow of 31-0 halftime which was a loss to Maryland with Frank Reich. Moreover, it included a loss to Boston College of 47—45 immortalized by Doug Flutie’s Hail Mary touchdown pass on the game’s final play.
Likewise, with this, he brought the modern 4-3 defense predicated on an athletic upfield lineman to the forefront.
Similarly, he made a free-wheeling atmosphere for the players to showboat, trash-talk, and run up the score. However, he faced criticism from other teams as the ‘Bad Boys of College Football’.
During this time, the school faced the Fiesta Bowl loss along with Miami’s prior two bowl games and questioned his capability of winning major games.
However, later in the 1987 season, the Hurricanes won the regular season and the School’s second national title too by defeating Oklahoma Sooners.
Dallas Cowboys
Meanwhile, Jerry Jones the owner of the National Football League’s Dallas Cowboys came with an offer to Jimmy to become the head coach of the team Dallas Cowboys.
Likewise, by replacing Tom Landry he re-united with former Miami standout Michael Irvin. In the first season, it was 1-15.
However, not for a long period, he developed the Cowboys into a champion-quality team with his amazing coaching skills.
Likewise, he served there from 1989 to 1993 and was one of six men in NFL history to coach Super Bowl winners.
His team won two Super Bowls XXVII in 1992 and XXVIII in 1993. However, after a fallout between Jimmy and Jerry Jones, he left the position of head coach for the Dallas Cowboys Later he went to work as a TV analyst for ‘Fox Sports’ for almost two years.
Miami Dolphins and Television Career
However, in the year 1996, Jimmy Johnson joined the Miami Dolphins after replacing former head coach Don Shula. However, with his fewer wins in the season, he resigned from the post three years later.
Moreover, after resigning, he further rejoined his television career as an analyst on Fox Sports. Similarly, he is the studio analyst for Fox’s coverage of the Bowl Championship Series in January along with Chris Rose as a host.
Caption: A model image of Jimmy Johnson along with his co-hosts of the Fox NFL Sunday program. Source: Instagram
Likewise, Jimmy Johnson has appeared in various Television shows like, ‘Fox NFL Sundays’, ‘Fox NFL’, ‘Fox NFL Pregame’, and ‘The Waterboy’.
Furthermore, he has also done endorsements for a company like ‘Procter & Gamble’. Likewise, he has done a series of a commercial for the product ‘ExtenZe’ in the year 2010.
Controversy
During his tenure at the University of Miami, Jimmy Johnson allowed American footballer Vinny Testaverde’s football jersey number #14 to retire.
However, he refused to retire Bernie Kosar’s number #20 as Kosar played one season for him and made the Hurricanes to the national title.
Jimmy Johnson – Body Measurements
Jimmy Johnson has a height of 5 feet 7 inches tall (67 inches) and weighs around 72 kg. Likewise, he has fair skin with blue eyes. However, there is no information regarding his body measurements.
Jimmy Johnson – Social Media
Reflecting upon his social media presence, Jimmy Johnson is active on Twitter and Instagram.
His Twitter account is @jimmyjohnson and has 373.1K followers which he joined in August 2011. Likewise, his Instagram handle is @jimmyhohnson4616 and has 24.9k followers in it.