Bradford Howard graduated from Sumter County High School and Alabama A&M.

Howards 36 years of coaching began as an assistant coach at Washington High School in Blakely, Georgia in 1966. He would spend the next eleven seasons there before moving to Alabama for an assistant coaching position at Livingston University in 1977.

After four years with Livingston, Coach Howard accepted the head football coaching job at Paramount High School in 1981. It would be the first and last head coaching job he would hold in Alabama.

In 2000 Paramount combined with Eutaw to form Greene County High School. Coach Howard would remain as the head football coach at Greene County for the next two seasons before stepping down. His last two seasons at the new school produced a 16-7 record.

Howards overall football record is 121-95-1 in twenty-one seasons as a head coach. His teams qualified for the playoffs sixteen times and won eight area and region titles.