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Kirk Herbstreit Shares Odd Story About Mike Vrabel Swearing at Kindergarteners
The Cleveland Browns hosted the Pittsburgh Steelers on Thursday Night Football in Week 12 with Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit on the call for Amazon.
During the second quarter of the snowy, low-scoring affair, Herbstreit shared a story about when he first knew that Mike Vrabel, the Browns coaching and personnel consultant and former Tennessee Titans coach, was going to be a good coach.
Apparently Herbstreit observed Vrabel's old-school coaching attitude during Vrabel's playing days when he took some time out of his offseason to coach a youth football team.
Apparently Vrabel coaches kindergarten kids the same way he coaches the Browns, language included https://t.co/kDIrl4mIcS pic.twitter.com/sfvVASI4t2
— CJ Fogler 🫡 (@cjzero) November 22, 2024
"When I learned Mike Vrabel was a great coach he had just got done winning the Super Bowl," Herbstreit explained. "Came back to Columbus and my twins and his son Tyler were about the same age. He coached, I think Kindergarten football, and he talked to them the way he talks to these Browns players. And I was like, that guy's going to be a great coach. Get your ass over here! I mean, he was just like in this politically correct style of coaching, that guy is a football coach. Even with kids."
The story probably didn't go over the way that Herbstreit had hoped as fans were mostly left laughing at the idea of Vrabel swearing at small children.
lol was Herbstreit just telling a story about Vrabel cussing out kindergarteners? Haha
— Ross Jackson (@RossJacksonNOLA) November 22, 2024
Kirk Herbstreit: "Vrabel isn't a 'politically correct' football coach, okay? I once saw him scream at a group of four year old children."
— Punished Levis (@actionjack69) November 22, 2024
Al Michaels: "Harris gets eight on the inside handoff."
"and yeah, Mike Vrabel was just screaming at my kindergartener for not picking up a blitz. called him a real piece of shit. in this politically correct society, that's a real football coach!" - Kirk Herbstreit
— Jordan Zirm (@JordanZirm) November 22, 2024
Hopefully, an NFL team hires Vrabel to be a head coach next year so he doesn't have to go back to youth sports.
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Stephen Douglas is a Senior Writer on the Breaking & Trending News Team at Sports Illustrated. He has been in journalism and media since 2008, and now casts a wide net with coverage across all sports. Stephen spent more than a decade with The Big Lead and has previously written for Uproxx and The Sporting News. He has three children, two degrees and one now unverified Twitter account.