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Good gosh, coaching, auto racing easy for Joe Gibbs.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
FORT WORTH, Texas _ Good gosh, it's Joe Gibbs.
Yeah, that Joe Gibbs. The same one who meticulously throttled the Cowboys in the late 1980s as coach of the Redskins is once again running circles around North Texas sports fans, this time as owner of one of NASCAR's most successful teams.
The last time you saw Gibbs looks a lot like the next time you'll see him. The Dick Clark of sports management, still wears those glasses, still as excitable as Saran wrap. Still winning.
"Different sports, same objective," said Gibbs, the only person on the planet with a Super Bowl ring and a Winston Cup in his trophy case. "I'm having a lot of fun."
Oblivious to distractions such as the Final Four or a reporter's questions Saturday at Texas Motor Speedway, Gibbs was as focused as the football coach who was impossible to dislike, or even get to know. Watching his drivers Bobby Labonte and Tony Stewart practice for today's Harrah's 500, Gibbs perched himself atop a trailer, Nikes on feet, headphones on ears, stopwatch in hand, winning on his mind.
Though he was surely relaying instructions on how to harness his horsepower, you could almost hear him designing blocking schemes for his Hogs. (Wonder if the "Counter Trey" works as well on an asphalt oval as it did a grass rectangle?)
Gibbs, a devout Christian whose most biting expletive is "good gosh,"called plays for Joe Theismann, Doug Williams and John Riggins before he burned out. Now, he calls the shots for Labonte and Stewart before they burn out.
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