Former NFL wide receiver and current Sunday Night Football color commentator Cris Collinsworth is making sure that he has a job in case the current NFL Lockout drags into the 2011 regular season.
Collinsworth has taken a job working as the wide receivers coach for Highlands High School.
I am going to get my football fix this fall even if the lockout cancels the NFL season. Highlands High School’s head coach Dale Mueller (winner of 4 straight state championships) called to ask if I would be interested in coaching wide receivers. I laughed. He said he was serious. The pay wasn’t much (zero), but he promised I would have fun. My son Jac is one of the receivers on the team, and I had already polluted his brain with most of my receiving advice. But what the heck, the NFL will probably miss at least half of their season anyway, I agreed. Today is my first day. I just got the playbook and I feel like a first year rookie all over again.
Maybe the NFL will save me and actually play football, but if not, you will know where to find me on Friday nights. Go Birds!
The NFL is set to appear in front of the Eight District Court of Appeals this Friday, June 3, to appeal the injunction granted to the NFLPA* by Judge Susan Nelson. Mediation between the two sides is set to resume on June 7.
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