When ‘You’re the Coach’

County man’s football board game now available at local hobby shop

by Doug Davison January 14th, 2025January 14th, 2025

You’re the Coach inventor Michael Wray Jr., left, and Stratagem Hobbies owner Lyndon Williams play the game inside the store. Credit: DOUG DAVISON | HOUSTON HERALD

When he was in 8^th-grade back in 1982 in his hometown of Bedford, Virginia, Michael Wray Jr. wrote an essay that became the origin of a board game for football fans that he went on to invent.

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Doug Davison

Doug Davison is a writer, photographer and newsroom assistant for the Houston Herald. Contact him by phone at 417-967-2000 or by email at ddavison@houstonherald.com. More by Doug Davison

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