Joe Gibbs
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Joe Gibbs is a Super Bowl-winning coach and a NASCAR Hall of Fame team owner.
Joe Gibbs from Mocksville and has been inducted into both the NFL and NASCAR Halls of Fame. Gibbs also started a men's ministry and nonprofit organization for incarcerated inmates.
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The Uncommon Story: Notable North Carolinians is a local public television program presented by PBS NC
This series was produced with support from the NC Department of Natural & Cultural Resources.
Joe Gibbs
3/28/2023 | 1m 38sVideo has Closed Captions
Joe Gibbs from Mocksville and has been inducted into both the NFL and NASCAR Halls of Fame. Gibbs also started a men's ministry and nonprofit organization for incarcerated inmates.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship[upbeat music] - [Narrator] Born in Knoxville in 1940, Joe Gibbs would leave North Carolina and build a championship football team.
Only to return 50 years later to start another winning team in a sport he knew very little about.
Joe spent his youth in San Diego and played football for San Diego State, where he got his start coaching.
After being an assistant for some of the best coaches in college and pro football, he became head coach for the Washington Redskins.
He would lead them to three Super Bowl championships.
That would put Joe in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
In 1992, he returned to North Carolina, not to coach football, but to start his own racing team.
It started as a bumpy ride, but ultimately his team saw a lot of checkered flags.
Over a 30 year span, his team has won four Daytona 500 races and five NASCAR Cup series titles.
- [Announcer] Denny Hamlin wins his second Daytona 500 and wins it for Coach Gibbs.
- [Narrator] Joe is also in the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
Along the way, he realized the importance of spiritual guidance.
It motivated him to start a prison ministry for men in jail for life, as well as write a New York Times bestselling book.
Both are called Game Plan for Life.
As Joe would say, "Life is like a game.
We are the players.
God is the head coach, and we're playing the biggest game of all".
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The Uncommon Story: Notable North Carolinians is a local public television program presented by PBS NC
This series was produced with support from the NC Department of Natural & Cultural Resources.