MIKE SINGLETARY HITS TOWN
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One of the things that I don't think I've mentioned about our Ohio abode is that our house is right down the road from the DeBartolo Corp., the owners of, among other things, the San Francisco 49ers.
After the Eddie DeBartolo unpleasantness with the NFL, his sister Denise and her husband John York took over the team. At the end of 2008 John and Denise became team chairmen and their 28-year-old son, Jed York, took over as the NFL's youngest team president and owner.
Jed's first order of business was to make Singletary head coach. The kid is off to a great start...
Both Jed and Mike were in town Monday for the Edward J. DeBartolo Memorial Scholarship Foundation dinner and The Vindicator was in full-coverage mode. It was weird seeing Mike Singletary on The Vindy's sports cover this morning signing a Bears helmet.
A small world, indeed.
On top of that, Jerry Angelo is a Youngstown guy... Weird, eh?
Mary and I were tempted to shell out $350 on tickets but we eventually decided since we had met Mike on a couple of different occasions back in Illinois, we'd wait and catch him next time. Still, it was cool to have a great ex-Bear in town and I wish Jed and Mike all the luck in the world, except for on Thursday, Nov. 12. On that date, they must be crushed.
Anyway, read all about Mike here:
Singletary embraces challenge of 49ers
Today's story on Jed is here:
Young executive
More later,
Mark
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