How do you remember the man in the Stetson hat, you remember have well..... And that's what happened 10-29-13, the service was MC'd by former Houston Oilers Tight End and current minister Mike Barber. The crowd may not have been max capacity, but the atmosphere
was electric! Former players, politicians and even a warden from the largest
maximum security prison all came to pay their respects and share stories of the
legendary Bum Phillips. The night started with the ole Luv Ya Blue fight song,
the crowd sung along and clapped in unison.
Carl Mauck a former Oilers Center shared “Our numbers are shrinking, we lost our head coach, but we still got our town” followed by a verse from the Oiler Cannnonball.
Everyone Oiler, every person that came up to speak mentioned
to just how awesome and special of a person he was. The overall take away from
the event is this love for one person one coach will never be duplicated again
because their will never be another Bum Phillips again. Bum was a marine raider
survived through war, Bum coached the Houston Oilers to the greatest highs in
team history, but overall Bum was a person will could only hope to be.
Afterwords I was able to catch up with one of the nights speakers a should be Houston Oilers Hall of Famer Robert Brazile aka Dr Doom and we talked about Bum's send of and Robert shared for the younger generation what exactly is Lov Ya Blue......
No comments:
Post a Comment