A Custom Retirement Song for Your Coach

Somebody is going to hand him a plaque with a career record engraved on it. The record is not why forty people drove back into town for this.

They came back for the bus rides. For the conditioning drill nobody who ran it has ever forgotten, described the same way by players who never met each other. For the one season the group still argues about at every reunion, the call late in the third quarter, the guy who swears to this day he was open. For the line he repeated so often that players from twenty years apart quote it identically, in his cadence, when their own kids want to quit something.

That is a song. A trophy list is not.

The trouble with a group gift like this is that twelve people have twelve versions of the same story and nobody wants to be the one who writes it down. You do not have to write it down. Collect the pieces, the years each person played, the nicknames he handed out, what he yelled from the sideline, the drill everyone still complains about, and send it in exactly as it arrives. We turn the pile into one song.

It gets played out loud at a banquet, so it has to work for a room of people who were there in different decades. Tell us that is the setting and we write it to be heard by a crowd, not read off a page.

One original studio quality song, written from what the group sends, $19.99, in your email within 24 hours.

Text the old team thread, ask for one line each, and order once the stories start repeating.