I’m a fan of the Lions head coach for many reasons. He’s a stat geek, he went to Georgetown, he may or may not have left a comment on this site, etc. Sure, he’s not as cool as Mike Tomlin or as badass as Rex Ryan but as it turns out he’s got something on both of those chumps: Schwartz is totally metal:
“If I could sing, my hair would be long, and I’d be in some small club in Western Ontario, sitting there trying to find a gig tonight,” he said in a WRIF interview in May.
Don’t let the clean-cut appearance and Georgetown economics degree fool you. Schwartz is a metalhead. Plain and simple.
Schwartz is so comfortable with the subject, he talked heavy metal for 90 minutes in a studio appearance on the “Mike in the Morning” show on WRIF 101.1 in May.
“Oh, man, I had one of the original mullets — 1984 or so,” Schwartz, 42, told host Mike Clark. “I spent a lot of money on hair gel. And I tell you what, I had a lot of sore necks from head banging, too.”
Schwartz ain’t done blowing your mind just yet. He even named his five favorite metal albums of all time:
Jim Schwartz’s top five heavy-metal albums:
1. Queensryche, “Operation: Mindcrime” (”Just a masterpiece. I’ve probably listened to it a thousand times, maybe more.”)
2. Judas Priest, “British Steel”
3. AC/DC, “Back in Black”
4. Metallica, “Master of Puppets”
5. Motley Crue, “Dr. Feelgood”
A video for (possibly) our most valued reader to get his day going:
