Sad City did a collective double take when we saw the news that Jerry Glanville had been hired as coach and general manager of the UFL’s Hartford Colonials. Glanville had been a high profile NFL coach in the late 1980’s and early 90’s and then did television work covering the NFL. His hiring was especially notable to Hakaan, who became an Atlanta Falcons fan when Glanville was coaching the team. Immediately we requested an interview and were excited when Mr. Glanville asked if we could call him and conduct a phone interview.
We learned that Mr. Glanville had never been to Hartford or even Connecticut for that matter but that he has worked in both New York and Boston. While telling us that he had never been to Connecticut, Glanville said, “they have a saying in Texas; I wasn’t born there but I got here as soon as I could.” Glanville also said he had become a UConn basketball fan since taking the Colonials job, something we can attest to from his Twitter.
