Clemson’s Dabo Swinney confuses SEC coach with country music star
Dabo Swinney shared Tuesday a case of mistaken identity when he thought he was doing LSU coach Brian Kelly – and his family – a favor.
It turns out there is more than one famous Brian Kelly.
“Just really stupid on my part,” the Clemson coach said.
Swinney told a story Tuesday about he and wife vacationing in Florida.
“I had a hilarious moment this summer,” he said. “This is hilarious. Also, just really stupid on my part, shocker. We went down to the beach and we went to, there’s a place called Grayton Beach in the panhandle. …
So my sister-in-law, she’s saying, ‘Hey, Brian Kelly has a place. His wife has a gift shop right on the corner there in Grayton Beach.’
“I’m like, ‘Oh really? That’s pretty cool.’ I had no idea. So anyway, we go there, and I go into the store. Me and Kath walking into the store and Kath buys something because she’s trying to support Mrs. Kelly or whatever we’re doing. So I’m walking around and they’re like, ‘Yeah, and he’s got a concert! He’s going to have a concert in the back.’
“There’s a little stage in the back and there’s, like, I think a little fake grass. Just a small little area, and it says, ‘Brian Kelly, you know, performing live on this day or whatever.’
“And I’m going, ‘Freakin’ A! Brian Kelly can sing and play? I didn’t know that!’ So I’m taking pictures and I’m sending all these pictures to Brian Kelly. …
“Well then, the guy that was with my brother, he’s walking around because Kath said something about, I don’t know what she said, ‘I just can’t believe that Brian Kelly, this is really cool.’ And (she says), ‘You know, we play them in the opener’ or whatever to the guy and he’s like, ‘What?!’”
As it turns out, it was Brian Kelley’s place. Brian Kelly of Florida Georgia Line, not the LSU coach.
“And I went, ‘What?! I’ve been firing all these pictures off to Brian Kelly.’ He’s over there probably going, ‘What the hell?! This is an idiot. What’s this dude doing?’”
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Mark Heim is a reporter for The Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Mark_Heim. He can be heard on “The Opening Kickoff” on WNSP-FM 105.5 FM in Mobile or on the free Sound of Mobile App from 6 to 9 a.m. daily.
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