[May 05, 2005] TFN's Paul Crane Speaks with Former NFL Coach Jerry Glanville; Jerry Glanville Has Returned to Coaching after 12 Years in Broadcasting With Fox, HBO, CBS, and The Football Network Tweet BATON ROUGE, La. --(Business Wire)-- May 5, 2005 -- TFN, The Football Network, Inc., (OTC:TFNK) - a next generation multi-media company, announces Jerry Glanville former NFL coach and TFN on air talent speaks with TFN's Paul Crane about his return to coach football. Recently, Glanville was hired as University of Hawaii's Defensive Coordinator. Glanville commented to Crane about his return to coaching football, "It's what I enjoy in life. It's what I'm meant to do. I can't believe I haven't done it for more than ten years. But the first day out there it was like I never missed a day." Former NFL head coach Jerry Glanville has returned to coaching after 12 years in broadcasting with Fox, HBO, CBS, and The Football Network. Glanville is the defensive coordinator at the University of Hawaii where he is reunited with his former offensive coordinator with the Falcons, Hawaii head coach June Jones. Glanville spent eight years as a head coach with the Houston Oilers and Atlanta Falcons after 11 seasons as an NFL assistant. This is a return to the college ranks for Glanville, who was an assistant coach at both Georgia Tech and Western Kentucky before rising to the NFL. Turning around defenses is nothing new to Glanville. Several of his NFL teams set defensive records, some of which still stand today. When Glanville was defensive coordinator of the Falcons, before becoming head coach in Houston or Atlanta, he took the Falcons' defense from last in the NFL to first in a single season. That kind of a chore is facing him again now. Last year Hawaii ranked #116 out of 117 Division 1-A teams in total defense and will open the 2005 season against Heisman Trophy winner Matt Leinart, Reggie Bush and the defending national champion USC Trojans. To review complete interview click on the provided TFN link www.footballnetwork.com About Paul Crane Veteran sports broadcaster Paul Crane is one of the linchpins of TFN's on air team. Crane joined TFN in August of 2003 and quickly assumed a vital role in the network's soft launch plans, serving as the anchor of some of TFN's most compelling programs. He was a core member of TFN's Fantasy Football 2003 show, which was broadcasted to over 80 million homes on SpikeTV. He also anchored many of TFN's studio analysis and highlight shows, including TFN Tonight, Fantasy Football Today: Last Chance, and TFN Football America. More about Paul Crane visit TFN link http://www.footballnetwork.com/personnel.cfm? pageid=74&cid=0&id=32&cateid=2 (Due to its length, this URL may need to be copied/pasted into your Internet browser's address field. Remove the extra space if one exists.) About Jerry Glanville Coach Jerry Glanville joined TFN, The Football Network, as a featured analyst in August of 2003, and immediately became a permanent fixture as the network's reigning NFL expert. He provided invaluable advice to the nation's fantasy football faithful during TFN's own fantasy football coverage. In addition to his studio work, Coach Glanville still enjoys calling a game every now and then, and TFN gave him the opportunity to call his first college game on September 20th, 2003, when he provided his typical expert analysis on TFN's broadcast of Columbia vs. Fordham. More about Jerry Glanville visit TFN link http://www.footballnetwork.com/personnel.cfm?pageid=74&cid=0&id=33& cateid=2 (Due to its length, this URL may need to be copied/pasted into your Internet browser's address field. Remove the extra space if one exists.) About TFN TFN, The Football Network based in Baton Rouge, LA is a multi-media corporation which specializes in producing and distributing football based content that covers all aspects of the game. TFN is engaged in the ownership, development, production and commercial utilization of football related content and plans to make strategic acquisitions of, or partner or align with, individuals, or companies that control various forms of pre-existing and newly created content bringing it to market through the internet, radio, TV, home video/DVD, print, video on demand and other forms of distribution as they become available. TFN's soft launch of its 24/7/365 cable television network in the fall of 2003 was an important step in the evolution of the long-range vision for the Company, proving the depth of the marketplace for football based programming. Since the conclusion of the soft launch TFN has continued to build its library of programming through syndication of various football based series and shows including Rivalries (also in DVD distribution), Anatomy of a Coach (Bobby Bowden), Founded 2003 and Eye of the Tiger. For more information please visit www.footballnetwork.com Trademarks TFN, The Football Network is a registered trademark of The Football Network and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective company. 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