Brandon Keith

[UNI]

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/11/17/brandon-keith-played-most-of-sundays-game-with-torn-hamstring/

[bobsboy84]

Re: Brandon Keith

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...orn-hamstring/

Appears toughness of Coach Nelson and Farley rubbed off on BK. Very impressive and sorry for the injury. Praying for complete and quick recovery.

[Cap'n Cat]

Re: Brandon Keith

Appears toughness of Coach Nelson and Farley rubbed off on BK. Very impressive and sorry for the injury. Praying for complete and quick recovery.

Coach Nelson learned under the absolute best, too - Walt Klinker.

[Mountain Panther]

Re: Brandon Keith

Coach Nelson learned under the absolute best, too - Walt Klinker.

He had a mouth that would make a sailor blush. You didn't sit behind the UNI bench if you had children.

[Panther-Sheik]

Re: Brandon Keith

He had a mouth that would make a sailor blush. You didn't sit behind the UNI bench if you had children.

You didn't want to even be in the Dome past the 3rd quarter if you had kids! Klinker could make an echo of profanity ring throughout a half full Dome. Great coach and guy to be around, though. Actually, practices were pretty entertaining as a scout teamer on D. Every good play for the D meant a tyrade and pretty funny verbal (and sometimes physical) abuse of the big fellas. Before practice in the locker room we litterally had the o-lineman scolding us to take it easy so that Klinker wouldn't freak out on them. Of course, this was when the Cap'n was a Grad Ass. and I think even holding the cards for the scout team D, so I give much of the credit to him.

[Cap'n Cat]

Re: Brandon Keith

You didn't want to even be in the Dome past the 3rd quarter if you had kids! Klinker could make an echo of profanity ring throughout a half full Dome. Great coach and guy to be around, though. Actually, practices were pretty entertaining as a scout teamer on D. Every good play for the D meant a tyrade and pretty funny verbal (and sometimes physical) abuse of the big fellas. Before practice in the locker room we litterally had the o-lineman scolding us to take it easy so that Klinker wouldn't freak out on them. Of course, this was when the Cap'n was a Grad Ass. and I think even holding the cards for the scout team D, so I give much of the credit to him.

Yet, he and Mudra were the two largest male influences in my life, next to my Dad. Klinker took a spoiled, lazy rich kid from the Chicago suburbs and made him into a man.

Of course, if he could see me now, he'd say, "Cap'n Cat, or whatever the **** you call yourself, get your fat ass on the track and drop a hundred pounds, NOW!!"

And, you know what? I'd flippin' do it!!!




He had a litany of funny expressions for things.

Someone on the team had a case of the crabs, which he called "snaggletoothed crotch critters".

Another one: "There's only two sports in the world and they both have points - t*ts and football!"

He had a terrible disdain for receivers and d-backs, because in his eyes, they were pretty boys. He condescendingly referred to them as "high sockers".

After the games, he graded film, sometimes getting up way before dawn to do so. He had entertaining names for bad o-line technique and mistakes. For example, if you hit a guy and fell to your knees in front of him, he called it the "c*cksvcker block". Also, if a d-linemen rushed you and you let him by without even touching him, he called you an "iron yard deer". That was my favorite of all!!!

He didn't particularly like kickers, either - same thing, they were dainty, pretty boys, just like receivers. He said that a football game should never end because of a non-contact player. If we won by a late field goal or extra point, after the game, he'd trudge off the field like a dejected bear, grumbling loudly about high sockers and myriad unidentified "little pvssies".



The funniest thing I ever heard him say was right before a Terry Allen staff meeting. Klinker and I and Mike Smith, QB coach, and Wes Anderson, receiver coach back then, also an African-American, were all sitting in the meeting room early, waiting for TA. Mighta been a couple other coaches, too.

Anyway, no one was talking, so Cap'n Cat, social butterfly that he is, thought he'd break the ice. I asked Wes Anderson, very seriously, whether blacks really liked being referred to as African Americans (rather a new term at the time - 1990), or if they still preferred "black" and does anyone still use the word, "Negro" anymore, etc, etc. etc.

Wes rubbed his stubble and said, rather deliberately, "Well, you know "African-American" is gaining acceptance in the black community, but "black" is still cool with many of my people and, "Negro", it's just kinda old and becoming part of history, so, no one's using that anymore, ya know?"

Cap'n Cat said, "Well, then, what do YOU prefer to be called as a race?"

Wes replied, "Oh, black's fine with me."

I nodded and the talking stopped. All the while, Klinker is sitting, listening, doodling offensive plays on a tablet when, not even looking up, he said, matter-of-factly, "I kinda prefer "boy", myself."

We all laughed our azzes off and Wes just rolled his eys. Klinker wasn't racist, he was just an old school, dusty old cowboy from the high plains of Colorado.



He was and is a great man.

[Mountain Panther]

Re: Brandon Keith

Didn't Klinker drive big rigs after leaving UNI?

[Cap'n Cat]

Re: Brandon Keith

Didn't Klinker drive big rigs after leaving UNI?

No, he coached at Kansas, then at Missouri State, then worked for some NASCAR racing team, driving trucks for them. I think that was the sequence.

[JayJ79]

Re: Brandon Keith

At least he had the trucker vernacular down pat, it sounds like.

[Panther-at-Arms]

Re: Brandon Keith

I just laughed my a$$ off reading that, Cap'n. PC is so overrated.

[Cap'n Cat]

Re: Brandon Keith

I just laughed my a$$ off reading that, Cap'n. PC is so overrated.

I talk to him every now and then and we laugh about all that stuff.

[Born-a-Panther]

Re: Brandon Keith

Thanks Cap'n - that was entertaining.

[Jonsoup]

Re: Brandon Keith

He also coached Hawaii.