Marvin Daniel Levy is an American former gridiron football coach and executive who was a head coach in the National Football League (NFL) for seventeen seasons. He spent most of his head coaching career with the Buffalo Bills, leading them from 1986 to 1997.
His greatest success occurred between 1990 and 1993 when he led Buffalo to a record four consecutive Super Bowls, although each game ended in defeat. Levy concluded his head coaching career with 11 playoff victories and four Super Bowl appearances, both of which are the most of the head coaches to not win an NFL championship.
After retiring from coaching in 1997, Levy served as the general manager of the Bills from 2006 to 2007. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2001 and the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 2021.
How many Super Bowls did Marv Levy lose?
For all he accomplished as a coach in every conceivable professional arena, Levy will always be remembered and minimized as the coach who made it to four Super Bowls without winning one. Not that it bothers him.
When a reporter asked Marv Levy prior to the Bills’ fourth consecutive Super Bowl appearance if the game was a “must win”, Levy famously replied, “This is not a must-win; World War II was a must-win.”