Rooney himself might have selected a white coach when Bill Cowher retired in 2007 had he treated Tom. Downing/USA Today SportsColorado RapidsSportblogTim Howard is an increasingly outdated frontman for . He plunged ahead, accepting Obama’s invitation to be the US ambassador to Ireland, a post he held between 2009 and 2012. My understanding is that if he would want to come back and play that it would be for the Raiders and that would be it.