absolutely classic luther campbell football interview

http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2010/4/5/1406290/luther-campbell-the-edsbs-interview

It was like the coach was part of the media. He was in the locker room all those years, and for him to be there all that time and then do things differently felt like a stab in the back. He made them run around out there like straight pussies. You can celebrate to a degree. You can talk shit to a degree. I didn't like it, and if he doesn't like it, then fuck it. I don't care.

LC: They'll put more money on a 4 year old's game than on a high school game. Football in Miami is a right of passage like basketball in New York or hockey in Canada. You play football. If you don't play football, you go to the band. if you're not in the band, you become one of the most notorious thugs in Miami history. That's how it is. You got big bookies involved, forty year old men involved.

A kid who plays football in Dade county knows pressure. People see Jacory Harris and say, "Wow, he looks so poised, so cool, where did that come from?" People screaming, a place like the Swamp, a hundred thousand people yelling at you. Shit don't bother him. He came from Dade county, that's why.

You play on a field. Grown men watching. No police. Everybody's betting. It's the most intense game around. Their dad's betting, their mama's betting, some guy coming up to you after the game says "Motherfucker, you fucked my money up." Everyone ends up on the ground at the end of the game sometimes. Friday Night Lights is a joke compared to Miami football. Lots of people have lost their lives over it.

OS: I just had a kid. Any parenting advice from a reality television father?

LC: First off, do not put no Florida onesie on that baby.

OS: Too late!

LC: We have got to get him a Brandon Harris onesie like the one my son has. Guarantee that he's a man. My wife went to FSU, and at a game she put a Florida State hat on him. I nearly lost my mind and threatened to divorce her on the spot. An FSU hat? Fuck that.

LC: I'd rough him up a bit. I mean, he's a baby, so there's only so much you can do, but women want to cuddle him, make him soft. When he falls, let him fall, these ladies won't do that if you don't. I like it when strange ladies change his diaper and he pees on them and it gets all in their hair. It's like his first golden shower.