Question: When a former broadcaster with ABC Sports returned to coaching, how many years was the team he started coaching with the National Football League?

Context articles: Bud Wilkinson
Mike Sherman
Andrey Skorobogatko
1978 St. Louis Cardinals (NFL) season
Larry Pasquale
Dennis Fryzel
Howard Ballard
Michael Irvin
Chet Simmons
Darren Sharper

Charles Burnham "Bud" Wilkinson (April 23, 1916 – February 9, 1994) was an American football player, coach, broadcaster, and politician.
 He served as the head football coach at the University of Oklahoma from 1947 to 1963, compiling a record of 145–29–4.
 His Oklahoma Sooners won three national championships (1950, 1955, and 1956) and 14 conference titles.
 Between 1953 and 1957, Wilkinson's Oklahoma squads won 47 straight games, a record that still stands at the highest level of college football.
 After retiring from coaching following the 1963 season, Wilkinson entered into politics and, in 1965, became a broadcaster with ABC Sports.
 He returned to coaching in 1978, helming the St. Louis Cardinals of the National Football League for two seasons.
 Wilkinson was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1969.
Michael Francis Sherman (born December 19, 1954) is an American football coach and former player.
 Sherman was the head coach of the Green Bay Packers from 2000 to 2005.
 Sherman led the Packers to five consecutive winning seasons from 2000–04 and three divisional titles in 2002, 2003, and 2004.
 He was also the head football coach at Texas A&M University from 2008 to 2011.
 He has also been a coach in the NFL for the Seattle Seahawks, Houston Texans and Miami Dolphins.
 Before he started coaching in the NFL, he served as an assistant coach at five different colleges, including Texas A&M, where he coached the offensive line for seven seasons.
 He is one of few coaches that has been a head coach at every level - high school, college, and in the National Football League.
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Andrey Viktaravich Skorabahatska (Belarusian: Андрэй Віктаравіч Скорабагацька ; Russian: Андрей Викторович Скоробогатько ; born 19 July 1968) is a Belarusian professional football coach and a former player.
 He has formerly played for Belarusian Club Dnepr Mogilev, MPKC Mozyr, Transmash Mogilev, Torpedo-Kadino Mogilev and FC Gomel.
 Skorabahatska started coaching in 2004, in his country.
 On 8 August 2008 he was appointed the manager of Belarusian Premier League team Dnepr Mogilev, where he worked until 2011.
The 1978 St. Louis Cardinals season was the team's 59th year with the National Football League and the 19th season in St. Louis.
 The controversial recruitment of 62-year-old former Oklahoma Sooners coach Bud Wilkinson was a failure, as the team, already affected by becoming the first opponent team to lose visiting the expansion Buccaneers, failed to maintain the standard of the previous four seasons.
 The team lost its first eight games to be out of the running for the playoffs by midseason, and even a sequence of six wins in eight games failed to move the team beyond equal last in its division.
Larry Pasquale (born April 21, 1941) is a former American and Canadian football coach, and sports broadcaster.
 His 39-year football coaching career included jobs with multiple teams in the National Football League (NFL), Canadian Football League (CFL), and several college and high school football teams.
 During his career he was regarded as one of the most respected special teams coaches in the NFL, earning Special Teams Coach of the Year Honors.
 After retiring from coaching, Pasquale enjoyed an eight-year career as a television and radio sports broadcaster.
Dennis Fryzel (February 21, 1942 – July 6, 2009) was the last head football coach at the University of Tampa.
 He was the captain of the football team at Garfield Heights High School, where he lost his teeth to on-the-field injuries.
 He attended Denison University, where he played football and ran track.
 Although offered a tryout by the Boston Patriots, he was unable to bulk up enough to accept.
 He entered the coaching ranks with jobs at his former high school, Columbia University, and Williams College, before being offered the defensive coordinator position by Tampa head coach Earle Bruce.
 Fryzel took over the head coaching position when Bruce was offered a job at Iowa State University the next year.
 Fryzel coached for two years at the University of Tampa, before the program was disbanded.
 Ironically, Fryzel, who had become the fourth UT head coach in as many years, had given assurances on his hiring that he intended to serve out his three-year contract, and not use it to serve as a springboard to a higher-profile job.
 Fryzel then took the position of special teams coordinator with the expansion NFL Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
 After one year, he returned to the college ranks and served as defensive coordinator at Syracuse University and Air Force, before rejoining Bruce at Ohio State University.
 After being fired (along with Nick Saban and Steve Szabo) following the 1981 Liberty Bowl, Fryzel retired from coaching.
 Saban, who calls Fryzel a "great mentor" and included him on the sideline at Alabama games, credits him with helping him to make up his mind to leave the Miami Dolphins and take the University of Alabama coaching job.
 He died in July 2009 of renal cancer.
Howard Louis Ballard (born November 3, 1963) is a former American football offensive tackle in the National Football League for the Buffalo Bills and Seattle Seahawks.
 Nicknamed "House" for his sturdy build, he played in four Super Bowls and was selected to two Pro Bowls while a member of the Bills.
 He played college football at Alabama A&M University.
 After breaking his leg in a game, and ending his career, Howard "House" Ballard Worked as a Sheriffs deputy in Clay County, Alabama, until he went back to school to finish his degree, And started Coaching High School Football ball In Pike County, Alabama.
Michael Jerome Irvin (born March 5, 1966) is a retired American football player, actor, and sports commentator.
 Irvin played college football at the University of Miami, then for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL) for his entire pro athletic career (1988-1999), which ended due to a spinal cord injury.
 Irvin was nicknamed "The Playmaker" due to his penchant for making big plays in big games during his college and pro careers.
 He is one of three key Cowboys offensive players who helped the team attain three Super Bowl wins: he is known as one of "The Triplets" along with Troy Aikman and Emmitt Smith.
 He is also a former broadcaster for ESPN's "Sunday NFL Countdown" and currently an analyst for NFL Network.
 In 2007, he was selected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Chester Robert "Chet" Simmons (July 11, 1928 – March 25, 2010) was a television executive.
 He worked at ABC Sports, NBC Sports and ESPN, and was the first Commissioner of the USFL.
 From 1957 to 1964, he helped build ABC Sports into a leader in sports programming and was a key part of the development of "Wide World of Sports".
 He joined NBC Sports in 1964 where he stayed for 15 years becoming the first President in 1977.
 At NBC, he pioneered instant replay and coverage of the Olympics and NCAA Men's Basketball Final Four.
 In 1979, he left NBC to join the soon to launch ESPN becoming its second President.
 At ESPN, he oversaw the launch of the Network, the development of "SportsCenter", the first broadcasts of the NFL Draft, coverage of the early rounds of the NCAA Men's Basketball Final Four and the development of Chris Berman, Bob Ley, George Grande, Greg Gumbel and Dick Vitale.
 In 1982, he became the first Commissioner of the United States Football League and led it through three Championships and players including Herschel Walker, Jim Kelly, Reggie White, Steve Young and Anthony Carter.
Darren Mallory Sharper (born November 3, 1975) is a former American football safety and former broadcaster.
 He played in the National Football League (NFL) for fourteen seasons before which Sharper played college football for the College of William & Mary.
 He was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the second round of the 1997 NFL Draft, and later played for the Minnesota Vikings and New Orleans Saints.
 Sharper was a five-time Pro Bowl selection, and was named to the NFL's 2000s All-Decade Team.
 He finished his career with 63 interceptions, sixth on the NFL's all-time leader list at the time of his retirement.
 His 13 defensive touchdowns are tied for the most all-time.
 In 2016, Sharper was sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to multiple rape and drug-related charges.