Former Tennessee Titans head coach Mike Vrabel is now a guide with the Cleveland Browns, presumably till he returns to the sidelines as a coach in some unspecified time in the future, and one of many advantages of being with the Browns is that he will get to return to his roots as a Northeast Ohio native.
Returning to Ohio gave Vrabel to take in the Friday evening lights as soon as once more on a particular evening at his highschool alma mater, Walsh Jesuit, for his jersey retirement ceremony.
Vrabel returned to Walsh Jesuit on Friday because the staff formally retired his No. 84 between the primary and second quarter of its matchup in opposition to St. Ignatius at Conway Memorial Stadium.
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The 1993 graduate was a Division I first-team All-Ohioan in his senior yr and was a three-sport athlete who now has the glory of turning into the primary individual to have his quantity retired by the Warriors.
Vrabel was honored to change into the primary to have his quantity within the rafters, saying “I respect them placing this collectively.”
“There’s no different jerseys up there, so I believe that that’s one thing that’s fairly cool…I believe all people that’s been by means of right here is making an attempt to depart it higher than they discovered it,” Vrabel added.
After leaving Jesuit, Vrabel went on to close by Ohio State College the place he starred as a defensive finish and put up 36 sacks in his three years as a starter and received Huge Ten Defensive Lineman of the 12 months in 1995 and 1996 to change into the primary participant to win the award twice.
Congrats to Vrabel on being enshrined as a Walsh Jesuit legend.
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