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Browns’ new head coach Mike Pettine learned from his dad

Written by: on Friday, January 24th, 2014. Follow Jeff Fisher on Twitter.

HSFAI guess I’m getting old.

Why?

I’m beginnig to take great pleasure in talking like my grandfather with that “back in the good ole’ days” stuff.

Well, yesterday, I got a big smile on my face and got nostalgic when I heard that Mike Pettine, Jr. – yes I said Junior – was named head coach of the Cleveland Browns.

Why?

Well, Mike’s dad, Mike Sr. (now you understand the junior thing) is one of the best head football coaches and molders of men that I’ve had the pleasure to know in my 40+ years of covering high school football.

Coach Pettine…and I’d never call him Mike…built one of the best high school football programs I’ve ever had the pleasure to cover, the Central Bucks West Bucks – CB West for short.  West is located in the Borough of Doylestown, 27 miles north of Philadelphia in beautiful Bucks County.

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