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SoCal Coyotes AAA Professional Football
by Lisa Morgan
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Your Southern California Football Team
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o, you say you love football? You call yourself a fan of the game? Well, I dare tell you -- no highly paid NFL team is likely to hold a candle to the passion, drive, dedication and pure heart displayed by the surprisingly strong band of brothers known as the SoCal Coyotes. This AAA professional football team, located right here in the Coachella Valley, is football in its purest form: Highly skilled and developed athletes, blowing up national statistics, playing purely for the love of the game, whole-heartedly appreciative for the chance to play and earn the loyalty and support of their fans. The SoCal Coyotes are Southern California’s team -- a team that contributes in big ways to their community and an organization we can all stand behind and be proud of. As a first-year franchise, behind great leadership and discipline, the Coyotes rose from relative obscurity to win the hearts of fans throughout the valley last season. As a direct result of an exceptional 9-1 winning season, the team’s fan base now spans 22 countries with a total Facebook reach of nearly 1.2 million. On December 8th, the SoCal Coyotes and Arizona Flying Dutchman will make history when they become the first professional football game to ever play in Avalon on historic Catalina Island at 7 p.m. Fans and players of both teams are invited to take the Catalina Flyer together to participate in this lifetime event where the SoCal Coyotes will also be ceremoniously receiving their hard-
earned Pac West Trophy for 2012. The hungry Coyotes broke every firstyear record for any expansion franchise in history before losing the FWFA national title 23-20 to the proud New Mexico Titans in Las Vegas, NV. The Coyotes were the first PWFL expansion team to win a championship, outscoring opponents 25190. In 2012, the team beat the defending national champions, the defending league champions and a conference champion. Currently, the Coyotes hold every offensive record in the PWFL, and finished the year with a whopping 5,212 yards in total offense. Leading the team is J. David Miller, Western Football News Coach of the Year. Miller, who is also President and General Manager, has coached at every level. He is the former Senior Vice President with the five-time World Champion Tampa Bay Storm of the Arena Football League under Tim Marcum, the league’s all-time winningest coach. Miller’s coaching record is 61-13, giving
him a stunning .833 winning percentage. Miller played briefly under Western PA Hall of Famer Joe Haering with the Pittsburgh Gladiators in the Arena Football League during the 1987-89 seasons. Miller is also an award-winning, best-selling author, with 13 books to his credit, and has worked with such notable NFL coaches such as Hall-ofFamer Hank Stram and Jerry Glanville, as well as Southern Methodist University’s June Jones. Earlier this year he released Pressure Makes Diamonds, with co-author Ron Kule and two-time NCAA Coach of the Year Ray Tanner of the South Carolina Gamecocks, who won back-to-back national championships. Tanner is now the Gamecocks athletic director. In January, Skyhorse Publishing will release his next book, SUPERAGENT: The One Book the NCAA and NFL Doesn’t Want You to Read, with renowned agent and maverick millionaire Dr. Jerry Argovitz. Miller’s extensive business background includes television documentaries and award-winning marketing campaigns, where he directed projects with Super Bowl champion Mike Ditka and Dr. Robert Voy, former chief medical officer of the United States Olympic Committee. Currently, he is producing two sports film documentaries, including The Mouse that Roars (www. themousethatroarsmovie.com). Coach Miller is clearly the inspiration and driving force behind the Coyotes’ meteoric rise to success. “If people are paying even $1 to watch us play,” Miller preaches, “then we owe them a major-league product. Our website, our playbook, our locker room is full of references to ‘the fastest expansion team to win a championship, to lead the nation in passing, rushing, and to make the playoffs.’ We put it out there for our players and coaches to realize we’re running a race against history, every day. We want to be the very best football team in America. Not soon, but right now. And I give all the credit for our success to our hard-working assistant coaches and the players who make up this great team.” The Coyotes assistant coaches include Wayne Anderson Jr., who has been a professional coach in five different countries; veteran defensive coordinator and longcontinue to page 5
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