I'm sure some of you may have missed a request from Koala22 to send a former great coach a birthday card on Feb 22nd or was it the 28th? The post was pretty much lost in a mega thread below.
Here is the address:
Bill Michaels
166 Ridgemont Road Dr
Columbia Road 29212
I for one don't do the cards. I will post a few thoughts and hope she prints it off so Coach can read it. I hope some of you old timers join in............
Coach Bill, when you were coaching our team, I was in high school. I listened to the OU games on the transistor radio. Yeah, it was that long ago. I was actually a OSU fan in my early days. I wanted to be Walt Garrison, Beech Nut and all. I swung over to the Sooners because of one player and that was Steve Owens.
How I wanted to run into a line like he did, but just didn't have the talent. The high school I went to had what I would call some sports geeks. We talked all kind of sports. Who was better, Bill Russell or Wilt the Stilt. Jerry Rhome and Howard Twilley. We discussed it all.
Yes we talked OU football and all the great teams and coaches of that era. You were one of them. You probably have no idea the effect you had on young minds in those days. For this I salute you.
I hear you're not in good health and I'm terribly sorry. Get well Coach and make Plano run down to the corner store to get you some Beech Nut...............HA!
Anyways.......Happy early Birthday Sir and many more...............
Here is the address:
Bill Michaels
166 Ridgemont Road Dr
Columbia Road 29212
I for one don't do the cards. I will post a few thoughts and hope she prints it off so Coach can read it. I hope some of you old timers join in............
Coach Bill, when you were coaching our team, I was in high school. I listened to the OU games on the transistor radio. Yeah, it was that long ago. I was actually a OSU fan in my early days. I wanted to be Walt Garrison, Beech Nut and all. I swung over to the Sooners because of one player and that was Steve Owens.
How I wanted to run into a line like he did, but just didn't have the talent. The high school I went to had what I would call some sports geeks. We talked all kind of sports. Who was better, Bill Russell or Wilt the Stilt. Jerry Rhome and Howard Twilley. We discussed it all.
Yes we talked OU football and all the great teams and coaches of that era. You were one of them. You probably have no idea the effect you had on young minds in those days. For this I salute you.
I hear you're not in good health and I'm terribly sorry. Get well Coach and make Plano run down to the corner store to get you some Beech Nut...............HA!
Anyways.......Happy early Birthday Sir and many more...............
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