So you want to be a get- back coach?

I knew I was living on borrowed time at my last stop when a parent told me "you have the  greatest job on earth." Job? I thought those resulted in paychecks.
 Said he, I was already a "legend", on the way to becoming an "institution." If being the Get-back coach at that school were such a great gig, why wasn't anyone trying to take it away from me?  
Nobody has ever applied for the lowly job of get-back coach. I certainly didn't.   I had been away from football for more than twenty years  when  some guys who played for my forner high school coach asked me to join them for their season-opening game a hundred miles from home.
The previous season i had hollered a little too loudly from the sideline and was adopted as sideline mascot
by a bunch of kids just recovering from soccer.
 The prospect of a two hundred mile round trip in a school bus geared for short hauls should have deterred me.
 But I thought we might still have some of the magic dust that had taken the previous year's team to a Cinderella appearance in the state semifinal game.
So here I was in the lockerroom, 1o minutes til kickoff , the honored guest of the coach and team.
Then the officials  made their routine pre-game visit to the lockerroom. After checkimg  for  weapons  They asked the standard question, "Coach, who's your get-back coach?"
The HC responded, without hesitation, "Coach J is our get-back coach."
If you've just been suckered into football's most humble role, here's a primer from a legendary get-back coach whose greatness is undiminished by the fact that he desecrates the Sabbath by working on  Sundays in the No Fun League.

Neyland: The Man, the Legend

Video feature,  50 min University of  Tennessee Photo Services, 1983.
Not even Toby Sharpe could mess this up.
Rare vintage footage and interviews with Neyland alumni and writers.
Narrated by the late Lindsey Nelson. Nelson, from Columbia Tennessee, became a publicist for Neyland while a student at UT. Neyland selected Nelson to be the founding announcer of UT's radio network. Nelson wanted to call it the Volunteer Network. Neyland preferred Vol Network.