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?

 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 1978 St. Louis Cardinals season was the team's 59th year with the National Football League and the 19th season in St. Louis.  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. <SEP> 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. <SEP> 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. <SEP> 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.  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.  After retiring from coaching following the 1963 season, Wilkinson entered into politics and, in 1965, became a broadcaster with ABC Sports.