Larry Fitzgerald once hugged Bruce Arians so hard he tore his rotator cuff. 'I’m like, ‘Fitz, if I can’t play golf... I better be driving around in the baddest convertible going.'' So he got Arians a Mercedes. It was the least he could do. ✍️ danpompei
. After one year in Indy, he became a head coach. His delayed opportunity unquestionably was one of the reasons he was successful.
But Arians says when hiring the African Americans and older White coaches, he was merely trying to add the best coaches he knew. He made a more deliberate attempt to hire women, making Jen Welter the NFL’s first female coach as an intern with the Cardinals, and naming Lori Locust assistant defensive line coach for the Bucs and Maral Javadifar the Bucs’ director of rehabilitation and performance.
Arians: “Tom was the deciding factor. With him back, now I could step away. Todd gets five years. Now, boys, it’s on you. I gave you everything I could give you. We have great owners, and we all kind of met in the middle. The Bucs were so good to me and I wanted them to be set up for the future and I wanted those coaches taken care of. I couldn’t do that when I left Arizona , and some of the assistants couldn’t get jobs for a year. I didn’t want that to happen again.
These days, Fuente is run by Arturo’s grandson Carlos Fuente, and the company hand rolls about 30 million cigars yearly with Dominican tobacco. At Grand Cathedral Cigars, a Fuente family mural adorns the wall, and a Fuente cigar wrapper is imprinted on a stained-glass window. Arians: “I’m there if Todd needs me, but he comes to me very seldom. It might be, ‘What do you think about the inactives this week?’ I don’t have to bite my tongue around here. There’s enough respect that I don’t have to. I’m in heaven right now. I have a unicorn job that nobody else has had. It’s kind of fun.”
Arians: “It’s really interesting. I average about seven hours, 10 minutes a night. I’m not getting real deep sleep, but a lot of REM. I averaged 5 1/2 to six hours when I was coaching. But we’re not grinders. I slept in my office one time in 40 years. That was ‘Sunday Night Football’ going to ‘Thursday Night Football,’ thinking I knew the coordinator and he had changed. Put a pillow down on the floor and felt like s— all week.
Arians: “I’m like, ‘Fitz, if I can’t play golf for a year, I better be driving around in the baddest convertible going.’ So I f—ed with him. I come home from practice for Christmas, and the kids are all out in the driveway. There is a white Mercedes SL550 with a red bow on it from Fitz. He told my wife to pick out a color. She says, ‘Larry, you’re not buying him a car.’ He says, ‘Ma’am, I am buying him a car. He made me $50 million and put me in the Hall of Fame.’ And I still got that car.
On Arians’ right wrist are bracelets representing his granddaughters Presley, 27, and Brylie, 13, and grandsons Asher, 5, and Mills, 3. Since he stopped coaching, Arians has had more time for them.Arians: “It looks like a Walmart watch, but it’s not. They are very hard to find. Tom gave it to me as a retirement gift to say thank you. I always kidded Emmanuel Sanders, Mike Wallace and A.B. . They used to call them the Bugatti Boys. Now when I see them, I say, ‘Hey, Tom got me a watch.
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