Jacksonville Jaguars Head Coach Urges Everyone To Support Food Fight Bowl

Football has been very good to me. I began my serious interest in the game while playing quarterback for Northeast High School in Oakland Park, Florida. I trained, worked, and studied very hard; and it paid off with a full scholarship to the University of Florida.

They moved me to tight end where I continued to play for the Minnesota Vikings and the Pittsburgh Steelers for nine NFL seasons.
Coach Sam Wyche gave me my first chance to coach in the NFL when he hired me to be the tight end coach for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. And from there football became even “gooder” to me. After stops as offensive coordinator in Miami, Pittsburgh and Atlanta, I became the Head Coach of the Buffalo Bills and, now, the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Along the way, I learned that we all have “choices” in life and many of them have lasting effects on the course that life charts.
I don’t mean the big choices like what vocation to enter, or what person to choose as your wife, where to live, etc. I mean moral choices like how to treat people; how best to motivate players and teams; how to be fair with the many situations that arise during the season and off season.
I must tell you, my most impressionable years were those spent in high school. And the most lasting lessons were welded into my fiber on the high school grid iron. And, the rival games always seemed to teach me an extra helping of character.
The Easley vs. Pickens rivalry called the Food Fight Bowl is one of those “big games” that will take place at Pickens High School on August 17th. The outcome is always in question in these battles, but the real winner will be Pickens County Meals on Wheels.

Please support your favorite school by donating generously when students and alumni ask you to help them win the “Ultimate Food Fight Trophy” signifying which school raised the most money for Meals on Wheels.
These students have made an important “choice” to take their time to help those less fortunate--the shut ins of Pickens County.
I hope you make the right “choice” when they come a callin’.
Mike Mularkey -- Jacksonville Jaguars Head Coach