The other day the Blob jotted down some thoughts on Leland Etzler, the longtime Woodlan football coach who passed Sunday and who taught an entire community, not to say all of us who had the great good fortune to know him, how you go about being a football coach.
Keeping the game in its proper perspective, that's how you do it. Understanding that you are an example in ways that go far beyond 100 yards of turf. Understanding, too, that above all else, you are an educator, and that if what you teach is blocking and tackling, it's also lessons that don't have anything to do with the wing T or the 3-4 defense.
In other words, you are everything this guy isn't.
A grown-ass man threatening an 11-year-old? Over youth football, for God's sake? Who does that?
And why should we be thanking him?
Because just as we need the Leland Etzlers to show us how it should be done, we need guys like this clown to show us how it shouldn't be. Both role models, in a sense, but occupying completely opposite poles of the earth.
I know which pole I'd rather spend time. I'm guessing you do, too.
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