LIII and later parted ways with the Rams following the 2019 season. His grandson Wes is also an NFL assistant coach. In 2010, he published his memoirs, Bum Phillips: Coach, Cowboy, Christian. Death Phillips died at his ranch in Goliad, Texas, on October 18, 2013, at the age of 90. He was survived by his second wife, Debbie, and six children from his first marriage along with almost two dozen grandchildren. In honor of Bum Phillips coaching both Nederland and Port Neches-Groves High Schools, the rivalry game between his two favorite schools is named the Bum Phillips Bowl. Quotes Phillips was known for his trademark Stetson cowboy hat on the sidelines, except when the Oilers played in the Astrodome or other domed stadiums. He stated that his mother taught him not to wear a hat indoors; his former boss Bear Bryant similarly refused to wear his trademark houndstooth hat during indoor games. Phillips wore his cowboy hat with blue jeans and a button down shirt, in contrast to Dallas Cowboys head coach Tom Landry who wore a suit and tie with his trademark fedora. Besides his trademark cowboy hat, Phillips is also known for his colorful quotes, such that Sports Illustrated noted that Wikipedia had a whole section of his page dedicated to these quips. In the week leading up to Super Bowl LIII, his son Wade was quoted as saying “Unfortunately, I get older but Tom Brady doesn’t,” while sporting the elder Phillip's sheepskin coat and cowboy hat as the Los Angeles Rams arrived in Atlanta. "There's two kinds of coaches, them that's fired and them that's gonna be fired." "I always thought I could coach. I just thought people were poor judges of good coaches." "In the country, they don't say 'bumblebees' they say 'bummel bees," on how Bum Phillips really got his name. His Aunt Aunt could only say 'Bum'. "I've never seen a hammer and tong game like that one." To a reporter who said, "He sure gets up slow", after Earl Campbell had been tackled. "Yes, but he goes down slow, too." "The harder we played the behinder we got." "Mama always said that if it can't rain on you, you're indoors." (Explaining why he wouldn't wear his cowboy hat in the Astrodome, the first domed stadium) "Dallas Cowboys may be America's team, but the Houston Oilers are Texas' team." "I never scrimmage Oilers against