Blechle gains a fan at Fairfield
<p dir="ltr"><span>It's Mean Joe Greene for the 21st century.</span>
<p dir="ltr"><span>After being ejected from last Friday's game for protesting an alleged uniform violation on Daltyn Korando, a dejected Chester football coach Jeremy Blechle awaited his team outside the locker room in Fairfield.</span>
<p dir="ltr"><span>There, a young Fairfield fan named Seth Williams came to check on him.</span>
<p dir="ltr"><span>"I'm pretty sure he didn't know who I was or what happened, but I could tell he was concerned," Blechle wrote in a Facebook post describing his experience. "After talking with him for just a bit I took a liking to him."</span>
<p dir="ltr"><span>Williams, an eighth grader at Fairfield, kept asking Blechle about the health of starting quarterback Curt Meyer, who left the game with an ankle injury with 5:56 left in the third quarter.</span>
<p dir="ltr"><span>"It was by far the most kind-hearted gesture I have seen in most my life," Blechle wrote. "Over and over again, he would continue to ask 'Do you think he will be ok?'</span>
<p dir="ltr"><span>"I assured him that he will be fine, and that quarterbacks are strong players and leaders, I'm sure he will be fine."</span>
<p dir="ltr"><span>When the Chester players returned from the 22-12 loss, Williams stayed by Blechle's side as the coach greeted his players and reassured them that everything would be OK.</span>
<p dir="ltr"><span>"He never interrupted me and never asked for anything," Blechle wrote."He just saw those big high school football players and was in a world of his own, like he was dreaming or something."</span>
<p dir="ltr"><span>Once all the players had passed by, Williams asked if he could get a picture with one of them.</span>
<p dir="ltr"><span>"I replied, 'Sure which one buddy?'" Blechle wrote. "He said 'The other QB, you know, the one that ended the game, the brother of the hurt QB.'"</span>
<p dir="ltr"><span>That would be CHS sophomore Nick Meyer, who filled in admirably for his older brother. A shocked Blechle went to the locker room and returned with Nick.</span>
<p dir="ltr"><span>"The first thing the little guy asked Nick was, 'You think your brother is going to be OK?'" Blechle wrote. "At that very moment, my heart filled with love for this kid.</span>
<p dir="ltr"><span>"Here is a fan from the enemy team, having plenty to celebrate, has one concern on his mind, and that being the health of our starting QB."</span>
<p dir="ltr"><span>Nick Meyer went on to take a picture with Williams, as did several other CHS players. The situation bears comparison to the famous 1979 Coca-Cola commercial where former Pittsburgh Steeler Joe Greene, limping to the locker room, encounters a young fan who hands him a bottle of the soda.</span>
<p dir="ltr"><span>Greene later tosses the fan his jersey in appreciation.</span>
<p dir="ltr"><span>"To (Williams) all our high school football players were superheroes," Blechle wrote. "I could see that getting to take a picture with his superheroes made his day, but what the young man doesn't know is that he made my year.</span>
<p dir="ltr"><span>"This is why I coach, I am the luckiest guy alive."</span>