What is it like to be fired as an NFL Coach: Yahoo News

[Stuart G]

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/what-its-like-to-be-fired-as-an-nfl-coach-201550343.html


He had planned to sleep at his palatial office. Shut his eyes in darkness. Open them to light. He’d peer out his window. Survey a well-manicured lawn. Then get to work. Because he loved his job. He really did.

He was a 38-year-old Midwestern transplant, who after three nomadic decades had found a home out west. Work had initially lured him to Los Angeles. Life had attached him. He’d graduated from early adulthood here. Learned a ton. Married. Had kids. He’d traveled north for a payday, then bolted east for a “great job,” then returned for his “dream job.” And in September 2013, even as he struggled, he couldn’t imagine leaving it.

Until, on a return flight after a business trip, he got the note. His boss wanted to meet. Not tomorrow. Tonight. And not in his office, not even at company headquarters, but in a private room at Los Angeles International Airport.

Six year later, the scenes flicker back into his mind. He grabs his luggage, a bit confused. He steps off a bus. Crosses a tarmac. Drags himself into the private room.

And at around 3 a.m., with his family sound asleep, he gets fired.

[underpants]

1. I knew it was Lane Kiffin

His firing at USC was bad but with the Raiders it was worse. Al Davis held a 45 minute haphazard news conference to detail why Kiffin was fired “with cause”. I remember watching thinking how brutal and personal it was.