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Coach.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF9XKcuphi8
Du var den som försåg våra hjärtan med skratt, som fick oss att vilja gå upp, på morgonen när dagen innan vart dyster.
Du va likom den personern, man alltid önskat sig!, den som gjorde det där lilla extra..
R.I.P
(L)Nicholas Colasanto(L)
Coach was slow and forgetful, but always genial, warm, and caring, a marked contrast to the tough, plain-talking Carla Tortelli. He got his nickname from his tenure as a baseball coach; he had coached Sam Malone on the Boston Red Sox before Sam bought Cheers. However, he once said that he was called "Coach" because he always flew in the coach section of an airplane and never in first class. He claimed his other nickname was "Red," not because he had red hair, but because he had read a book. Quotes like this were characteristic of Coach. As a minor league player, he was well-known for being hit by pitches. It is possible that too many pitches to the head led to his being slow and forgetful. Despite his kind, affable personality off the field, he could be a tyrannical coach, as found out when he coached a little league team and worked them so hard that they all threatened to quit.
As a young man, Ernie dropped out of high school and joined the Navy. He then played both minor league and major league baseball; it is known that he played for the St. Louis Browns, a team that played its last major league season in 1953. He later ended up with Boston's farm team, the Pawtucket Red Sox as a coach. He moved back to the Majors as Boston's third base coach when Sam Malone was pitching, and Sam hired him as a bartender when he bought Cheers. He loved the job so much that he spent his days off working at the bar. Coach's wife Angela had died before the show took place, and his daughter Lisa appeared in one episode, (Season 1, Episode 5: The Coach's Daughter)played by Allyce Beasley (Moonlighting). In Season 3, Episode 6: Coach in Love: Part 1 He became engaged to a widow named Irene Blanchard, but she broke off the engagement after winning the lottery.
Du var den som försåg våra hjärtan med skratt, som fick oss att vilja gå upp, på morgonen när dagen innan vart dyster.
Du va likom den personern, man alltid önskat sig!, den som gjorde det där lilla extra..
R.I.P
(L)Nicholas Colasanto(L)