Jerry Glanville is back. Yes, that Jerry Glanville. The crazy coach who was the star of NFL Films for his antics and quotes is back. But you might not be able to find him
Glanville has been named the defensive coordinator at Northwestern Oklahoma State. Admit it, you have never heard of Northwestern Oklahoma State. It’s a Division II school northwest of Oklahoma City. Not really in the northwest corner of the state, but close enough.
The kicker is that Glanville is 82 years old. He won’t be the oldest coach ever. John Gagliardi was 86 when he retired at Saint John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota and Joe Paterno was 84 when it ended for him at Penn State.
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Northwestern Oklahoma State is touting Glanville’s 57 years as a coach. He has been everywhere, college football at all levels, NFL, XFL, USFL and something called Major League Football.
Glanville started coaching in 1967 as the defensive coordinator for Western Kentucky. First, that’s impressive enough that his first coaching job was as a defensive coordinator.
Here are a couple of reasons to be happy Glanville is back in coaching.
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Jerry Glanville once left tickets for Elvis, or did he?
When Glanville was coaching the Houston Oilers, they played New England in a preseason game in Memphis. Glanville left a ticket for Elvis Presley for that game.
But, in the Atlanta Falcons Hall of Fame, in the Jerry Glanville section, it says he left two tickets for Elvis for every game. “You’d think where I worked, they would know the truth,” Glanville told Rich Eisen on a podcast. Which, according to Glanville, was that he only left a ticket for Elvis one time, that preseason game in Memphis and never when he was coaching the Falcons.
Could Elvis even find Northwestern Oklahoma State if tickets were left?
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Jerry Glanville was full of advice for NFL referees
It was still when he was with the Oilers that Glanville told NFL back judge Jim Daopoulos that the “NFL means ‘not for long'” because he was upset over some of the penalties or lack of penalties called in the game.
According to Glanville, the exact quote is “This isn’t college, you’re not at a homecoming. This is N-F-L, which stands for ‘not for long’ when you make them fuckin’ calls.” Daopoulos was in his first year in the league, having previously worked in college football.
How will he treat college referees next year?