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BobTown #4 - Coach
Burlington attracts and cultivates all kinds. ALL kinds. From the (very) early days there was Ethan Allen, to Orson Bean to Bernie Sanders to Tom Brennan.
Tom "Coach" Brennan headed up the University of Vermont (UVM) mens basketball team from 1986-2005. It might have taken awhile for him to get a winning program up and running, but it didn't take him long to become one of the town's main characters. And I mean character in all its definitions.
My first personal contact with Tom was in 2001. The Open Stage Theater Company was asked to put together a video to help raise money and awareness for the Queen City Police Foundation. Syndi Zook and I wrote and produced the video using well known "characters". And Tom was one of them. He was a natural, taking directions well and not hesitating to do what needed to be done.
At the time, Tom was also co-host of Corm & the Coach, a very popular morning radio show.
After leaving UVM, he became a personality on the national level as an analyst for ESPN.
On Friday, May 15, when I arrived at the St. John's Club for my weekly karaoke gig, Tom was sitting at the bar with some friends. After our hellos, Tom continued to tell his friends about what was going on in his life.
The BIG news is that NBC is developing a pilot based on the life of Tom. The working title is "Talk of the Town." How cool is that? It's beyond the preliminary talks but not yet in production.
And no word on who may get cast as the lead "character." Any suggestions? Too bad Orson Bean isn't thirty years younger.
By the way, this isn't the first time Tom's been pictured on this blog.
A LOT of our pictures/posts come from Burlington and our good friend Bob, so we've decided to let him loose on his favorite city and give him his own section of our blog... we'll call it BobTown. Most of the time it won't have anything to do with drag or gay stuff or even him... just stories about... BobTown. We get a lot of hits from all over the world - probably from people who want to know more about Vermont's Queen City. Maybe they're future tourists or they're thinking about moving. You locals may learn something, too! Enjoy!!