'Two-A-Days' Coach Rush Propst Celebrated His First Game Back As A Head Coach In Alabama By Throwing His Headset At A Player

AL.com — The questionable sideline behavior of Rush Propst is well known, and on Friday night the excitable football coach added to his history of erratic in-game incidents.

Propst is the new football coach at Pell City. In his first game back in Alabama since resigning from Hoover in 2007, Propst threw his headset at his son, John David Propst.

The bizarre moment came during a game stoppage after a personal foul penalty against Moody for a late hit out of bounds. Tempers brewed throughout the week leading up to the game between the two rivals.

There was plenty of trash talk on social media as well as a billboard promoting the game. The hit out of bounds touched off a scuffle between the two teams near the Pell City sideline.

Seeing his son attempting to rush into the fray, Propst reacted by ripping off his headset and throwing it at his son from a short distance.

Pell City athletics director Xavier Robinson intervened by pulling back John David Propst before anything else escalated.

After the game, Propst was asked about hitting his son with the headset. Part of the reason Propst returned to coaching high school football was to coach his son.

“He knows better than to do some stupid [stuff],” Propst said. “I got mad at him, but he’s mine and I’ll discipline him come Sunday, but there’s just things you can’t do, you know?

“It’s football and he’s a football player and he knows better. He’s been around long enough to know how to act.”

I love Rush Propst, man. They just don't make 'em like him anymore. In the era of safe spaces and trigger warnings, it's nice to still have a high school football coach or two out there who will fire a headset at his son when he ain't actin' right.

And of course John David Propst knew better than to do something like that. After all, he was raised by a man who is so committed to values and family that he had two of them at the same time.

I haven't heard of anything along these lines, but if someone isn't following the Pell City football team for a TV show this season, a great disservice is being done to our society. We got Two-A-Days when Propst was at Hoover and then recently had Titletown High follow Propst's one-season run at Valdosta High School in Georgia. We need another show.

And you'd think it would be a no-brainer, given the fact that Propst goes out in a blaze of glory everywhere he's been. He threw a headset at a player in his first game, for fuck's sake. If there isn't a camera crew in Pell City already, send one down there right this second and get the rest of this season on tape.