Another coach in the news. The other one was “Coach Tim Walz.”
Oh, those glorious days.
‘Coach Walz’ rallies Democrats with personal pitch to middle America.
BBC online. August 22, 2024.
Tim Walz is running for vice-president, but for a while on Wednesday night, it felt like he was campaigning to be the nation’s high school football coach.
Before he spoke, roughly a dozen of the players on the team he helped coach to a Minnesota state championship decades ago ran on stage, some wearing their old high-school jerseys, bouncing to the blasting horns of a marching band.
Once Mr Walz did appear, delegates in the packed arena waved signs that read “Coach Walz” – and the crowd chanted “coach, coach, coach!”