Memes and Things

Birmingham mayor Randall Woodfin

The man pictured with Hank was a head coach for a high school football team in Cushing, Oklahoma. His name is Ron Harmon. He coached high school football for the Cushing Tigers.

So as the story goes, he attended a Hank Jr concert and managed to get past security and asked Hanks road manager at the time “Jim Backmann” if Hank would do a benefit concert for his schools athletic department.

The answer was yes so as long as Hanks agent agreed to it. Hank also agreed to play for them as well saying “Sure I’ll play for a football program. I just don’t want to play for soccer. Let Rod Stewart do that.”

. ~ TULSA WORLD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1980