Steven L. Bird (born October 20, 1960) is an American football special teams coordinator for South Carolina State.
He played college football for Eastern Kentucky where he was named to the First-Team All-OVC and won two Division I-AA national championship games in 1979 and 1982.
He also played for the San Diego Chargers, Philadelphia Eagles, and Cincinnati Bengals and the Edmonton Eskimos and Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League (CFL).
Bird was a three-year starter at wide receiver for Eastern Kentucky and played in four consecutive Division I-AA national championship games (1979–82);[1] the Colonels won in 1979 and 1982.
[2] Bird was a first-team All-OVC choice in 1982 when he was also selected to the I-AA All-American team by Kodak, The Sporting News and the Associated Press.
He appeared in five games for the Alouettes where he recorded a career-high seventeen receptions for 228 yards while also not returning kicks and punts.
[20] In 2007, he joined Bowling Green as a special teams coordinator and wide receivers coach before becoming an offensive assistant for South Florida in 2009.