Durango53
09-11-2006, 06:52 PM
John Robinson, who coached the Los Angeles Rams from 1983-91, has one piece of advice:
Watch your step.
"It wasn't my first NFL game; it was my first UCLA game as head coach at USC (in 1976)," Robinson said. "I was running out in front of the team coming out of the tunnel. I was younger and more athletic in those days. Somebody clipped my heel and I went face down and the whole team ran over me."
Robinson scrambled to his feet before the last players passed and thought his mishap had gone unnoticed, until he got a postgame phone call from lifelong friend John Madden.
"We won the game to get in the Rose Bowl, and I thought he was calling to congratulate me," Robinson said. "Instead, he starts laughing and says, 'I saw what happened. You looked really bad.' "
I am very excited to kick off the new with the Vikings!!!!!
Watch your step.
"It wasn't my first NFL game; it was my first UCLA game as head coach at USC (in 1976)," Robinson said. "I was running out in front of the team coming out of the tunnel. I was younger and more athletic in those days. Somebody clipped my heel and I went face down and the whole team ran over me."
Robinson scrambled to his feet before the last players passed and thought his mishap had gone unnoticed, until he got a postgame phone call from lifelong friend John Madden.
"We won the game to get in the Rose Bowl, and I thought he was calling to congratulate me," Robinson said. "Instead, he starts laughing and says, 'I saw what happened. You looked really bad.' "
I am very excited to kick off the new with the Vikings!!!!!