ATLANTA _ Sean McVay may be the youngest head coach ever to participate in a Super Bowl, but he's really an old soul when it comes to football.
Look back at McVay's biggest influences, and you'll see a silver-haired man who came to define coaching brilliance. Thirty years after Bill Walsh's victorious finale with the 49ers in Super Bowl XXIII, McVay will try to carry on the legacy of the Hall of Famer who helped revolutionize the NFL.
"I never really had a chance to meet Bill because of how young I was," McVay, 33, said, "but my grandfather has been so willing to share (stories), and all the books that (Walsh) has written where he gets into the way he philosophically looked at things."