In this semi-regular series, we shall examine someone affiliated with the Arena Football League who meets Wikipedia’s strict standards for inclusion, and then attempt to either elaborate on the entry or make a joke about their alma mater or arrest record. Today, San Jose SaberCats Head Coach Darren Arbet.
Darren Arbet: Leader, Fighter, Lover. None of those descriptions grace his painfully sparse Wikipedia page, which includes the following tidbits, only one of which is interesting:
- 1. He is the head coach of the San Jose SaberCats.
- 2. He attended Edison High School in Stockton, CA.
- 3. While in high school, he played football and track & field.
- 4. His nephew Kevin Arbet is an NFL dropout.
- 5. In 2002, he became the first African-American head coach to win a professional football championship when the SaberCats won Arena Bowl XVI.
Woah, hang on a minute. The first? Then what the hell was everyone so excited about in Super Bowl XLI? Oh, right - it’s the Super Bowl. However, it must be gratifying to know that you were the first head coach to win a “professional” (like that loop hole?) football championship, break the color barrier, and forever be a footnote on someone else’s Wikipedia page.
When his life story is made into a movie (for TV?), we project that he’ll be played by none other than 24‘s Wayne Palmer.
Coach Arbet is a Fantastic human-being.I beleive there should be a movie made about him.
Coach Ben Parks,Jr
Sequoia high school
Hello Darren, hope all is well. Trying to reach my husband Kevin Mitchell Arbet, do that we can start folling the game again. I am well and no longer sick. Just finished my Associates in Business Administration. Working on my Bachelors in Business Administration. Would like to share this portion of my educational process with my common law husband, Kevin Mitchell Arbet. Let him know i love him and miss him much. I am at my mothers home, and he could call me at 209-577-2650, so that we can continue our lives. I love you all and miss you much. I hope that your mother is during well also and blessed.Thank you, Gwendolyn Ranee Elders. HAPPY NEW YEAR .