Posted on 12/13/2022 8:31:41 AM PST by Red Badger
Rest in peace to one of the greatest to ever do it.
Mississippi State football Coach Mike Leach was admitted to the hospital on Sunday night and passed away shortly afterward on Monday night at the age of 61.
Mike Leach was more than just a football coach for an SEC team.
Mike Leach was an innovator. He was the man behind the Air Raid offense, which has influenced every level of football and can be seen every weekend from high school to the NFL.
But beyond his influence as an offensive guru, he was also one of the most unique and funny personalities to ever put on the coach's headset.
Mike Leach is known as the pirate because of his love of history and pirates in particular. He's a history buff and he got a law degree from Pepperdine before deciding he wanted to be a coach instead.
Over the last two days, tributes to Leach have been poured out all over social media.
Here are some of his off-the-field highlights that show just the kind of amazing human being he was.
There are SO many videos and stories of Mike Leach. I promise you, even if you don't care about football, you will love Mike Leach's wisdom about weddings, candy, weather, "The Price is Right", and generally everything about life.
[ - MANY, MANY TWEETS FROM PLAYERS AND COACHES ALL ACROSS THE SPECTRUM AT LINK. TOO MANY TO POST........ - Red Badger]
The man was funny, kind, and genuine always and a true football guy.
I couldn't leave you without two of my favorite Coach Leach rants of all time.
RIP to the pirate.
Its your burden to prove that it does.
We will just wait for the autopsy results.
What passes for proof, in most cases, is nothing more than a phony consensus....”climate change is real”.....”Trump supporters are racists”.
Jews who escaped the Holocaust had no proof of death camps with gas chambers. They based their actions on a combination of anecdotal evidence and gut instinct.
You know who’s obsessed with “proof”? Weak Centrists and wobbly Republicans who don’t like being ganged up on by their Liberal friends at dinner parties. I have no such worries.
I’ll assume coach Leach was killed by the vax. You can believe otherwise.
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