Packers Head Coach Mike McCarthy has filed for a marriage license in Arizona, according to the Green Bay Press Gazette.

Not exactly the most important bit of news if your main concern as a Packers fan is how is the team going to return to the post-season in 2008 minus Brett Favre?

Mike McCarthy keeps his personal life guarded. Not that he has something to hide. He usually smiles, or rolls his eyes whenever you ask him to make a personal observation in a press conference, or even in a more private one-on-one interview. He always replies a repoters' focus in the media should be on the players, not the head coach.

McCarthy is generally liked by the Wisconsin media. Reporters see him as a capable coach who gets plenty of effort from his players. He can be clever at times in his play calling and game plan. But he is keeping his personal life out of the media spotlight for now. At least until he wins a Super Bowl.

McCarthy was in  Phoenix during Super Bowl XXII to pick up the Don Shula NFL Head Coach of the Year award. I asked him why he deflects questions about himself? After 20 years in the league, did he determine  that too many other head coaches spill their life story before they even win their division, then get fired? Or, did McCarthy have a mentor, like Marty Shottenheimer in Kansas City, that believed that a head coach's private life should remain private?

"Naw, it was Chuck Knoll," McCarthy told me."Chuck Knoll is a guy I always admired as a kid growing up in Pittsburgh."

Knoll was the Steelers head coach from 1969 to 1991, winning the Super Bowl four times in the 1970's, yet he didn't win his first coach of the year award until 1989 when he lead an average team to the post-season.

"He was such a great leader," said McCarthy of Knoll, "and it wasn't about him. Everybody knew he was the leader. Everybody knew he was the head coach. He was in command. And you didn't have to see him doing commericials or things like that.  I've always admired Coach Knoll, just about the way he went about his business. And then when I got into the coaching profession, I found out it's the players game. It is about the players."

"Trust me, I get to talk to you guys in the press everyday," continued McCarthy," so I get plenty of opportunities to get recognized. and to be out front. But I want our players to get the recognition."

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