The new Bears head coach is 38 years old, born in Tucker, Ga. A football player at Tucker High School, he graduated with a degree in speech communications from

Coaching life in the NFL moves quickly, no matter what your role is, it can change in an instant and the 18-day journey for Thomas Brown is a perfect example. Brown was named the new Chicago Bears interim head coach after the team announced the firing of Matt Eberflus on Friday.

Thomas Brown has emerged as a bright spot on the Chicago Bears coaching staff in the last three weeks during the roughest points of a turbulent season. Now the Bears will see if he can make an even larger impact with his direct nature as the interim head coach.

The Chicago Bears have had 18 head coaches in the franchise’s 100-plus-year history. Some of the previous 17 were significantly more successful than others, but either way, the Bears had not

His firing came one day after a 23-20 loss to the Detroit Lions at Ford Field during which the coach failed to call a timeout as the clock expired and the Bears had the ball.

The Bears, after an embarrassing loss on Thanksgiving, fired Matt Eberflus – the first in-season coaching firing in the team's century-plus existence.