Coach Wyche opened Sam Wyche Sports World on Poinsett Highway when I was probably 8 or 9 years old. He was still playing in the NFL. If memory serves me correct I think with the Redskins. Two years running in the off season he held a "Quarterback Clinic" for youth league quarterbacks at the store. Saturday morning 9-12. He talked football, he told stories and taught us how to throw a football. The first year it was just myself, my younger brother, and a couple of dorks from Parker or Berea. There were a few more the second year. The importance of the play fake was one of the topics. It was valuable training for a kid looking for any angle to get on the field. He took time and gave us each individualized instruction. He was a giant of a man with massive hands.
I saw Coach Wyche in the lobby of Timmons before the Western game last December and took the opportunity to thank him for that time he spent with us those two Saturdays long ago and the impact and impression those sessions left on this then 10 year old. He thanked me and shook my hand with his massive catcher mitt hand.
He was a fine man.
I saw Coach Wyche in the lobby of Timmons before the Western game last December and took the opportunity to thank him for that time he spent with us those two Saturdays long ago and the impact and impression those sessions left on this then 10 year old. He thanked me and shook my hand with his massive catcher mitt hand.
He was a fine man.
"Now remember, when things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean.
'Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That's just the way it is.”
Josey Wales
'Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That's just the way it is.”
Josey Wales
