[quote]FightinIrish26 wrote:
PGJ wrote:
My old football coach:
“Let that man get behind you, and Bob’s your Uncle.” (don’t get burned deep)
“That play was as square as grannies slipper” (He said that when we screwed up).
“Know your onions” (know what you are doing)
Not lifting quotes, I know. But these will stay with me for the rest of my life. I have never heard anyone in my entire life say anything even remotely close to these. Truly unique. Strange guy, but we all loved him. HUGE man, was an Olympic decathelete in the 1930’s.
That reminds me, here’s one…with a story:
1983, I’m a freshman in HS trying out for Varsity football (I made it by the way). Some of the upper classmen didn’t like the idea of a Frosh on the team. I’m in the locker room changing when the hazing begins. We’re punching and fighting, shit is flying all around and I’m half stuffed into a locker. Coach walks in…everyone freezes in position and looks thinking we’re all dead. Coach just looks and says:
“Make sure you get your bar dips in” then leaves the room. I took a lot of abuse that season. I love bar dips.
Football coaches are oddballs man.
My coach had his teeth knocked out playing hockey, so the first four or five in the front was a bridge (I think that’s what its called).
When he used to get really pissed and start screaming, the fucking things would come flying out of his mouth when he wasn’t expecting it. After a while he figured this out, and so when he was going to go crazy, he’d pull the teeth out and hand it to the nearest guy and say, “Hold these” and then go on his rant.
It was hard not to laugh, even if he was yelling at you.[/quote]
These are freakin’ hilarious! My senior year…new school and new coach…we’re getting crushed. Halftime coach is going nuts in the locker room trying to fire us up. Everyone is very serious and scared. At the end he screams is his deep Texas southern drawl:
“I wanna’ see sparks shoot out your ass!”
I lost it and laughed out loud. Coach hated me from then on.