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Bum Phillips is getting his own opera?

Found April 25, 2012 on Players View: Yardbarker Blogger Network
PLAYERS: Wade Phillips
TEAMS: Houston Texans

Historically speaking, Bum Phillips is probably the most adept coach of all-time that never won a Super Bowl.

If he’s not in your mind the greatest to never reach the brass ring, then it can’t be argued that he was loved during and after his time as the lead man for the Houston Oilers.

So much so that decades later a New York City production group is putting together an opera in his honor.

To read the rest of this article and watch an in-depth video into the making of the opera, please click the link below.

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