NFL salutes Vancouver coach
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As it turns out the winning coach was from Halifax but even being a finalist for the award is praiseworthy.Among the people who know him best, Doug Pauls’ vocation is something of an open-ended question.
He runs a dentistry clinic with his brother in Kerrisdale, but his passion is football. Even the NFL has noticed.
Last week, Pauls, 51, was among 10 finalists nominated as the 2013 NFL Youth Coach of the Year. The winner will be announced Thursday [November 14].
This article raises for me a question: since the NFL has a program to recognise community-level coaches in Canada, does the CFL have something similar? I know there's the Orange Helmet Awards, but this is a Lions initiative with only provincial jurisdiction.
Speaking of the OHAs, Doug Pauls was also an award recipient at the most recent instalment of this event:
http://bclions.com/article/lions-announ ... rd-winners