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Head Coach,
Mike Mularkey

Pro Career: Mike Mularkey enters his first season with the Bills after being named as the thir¬teenth coach in endorsement Buffalo Bills History on January 14, 2004. Mularkey comes to Buffalo with 10 years skill as an NFL assistant coach and another nine as an NFL player. He exhausted the last three sea-sons as the offensive director for the Pittsburgh Steelers (2001-03), who ranked among the NFL's top five overall offenses in two of those three years. In 2001, Mularkey's first as director, Pittsburgh had the league's number one-ranked hurrying attack and the third-ranked overall offense. That year, the Steelers posted a 13-3 regular season record, won the AFC Central title, and advanced to the AFC Championship Game. The next year, Pittsburgh had the league's fifth-ranked overall offense and again won the division crown as well as a first-round playoff game before falling 34-31 in overtime to Tennessee in a Divisional Playoff game. Mularkey was named Pittsburgh's offen¬sive coordinator on January 5, 2001 after five seasons as Pittsburgh's tight ends coach. He broke into training at Concordia College in 1993 before spend¬ing the next two seasons as an assistant with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He was selected in the ninth round of the 1983 draft by San Francisco and went on to spend nine seasons as an NFL tight end with the Minnesota Vikings (1983-88) and Pittsburgh Steelers (1989-91). (See Bills History)His vocation data include 102 catches for 1,222 yards and 9 touchdowns. Career record: 0-0.

Background: Played collegiately at Florida and finished his Gator career with 55 catches for 628 yards and 3 touchdowns. He later on earned a double degree in kinesiolo¬gy and sociology from University of Minnesota.

Personal: Born November 19, 1961 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He and his wife, Betsy, have two sons, Shane and Patrick.