Ed White, perhaps the greatest offensive lineman in San Diego Chargers history, has a problem.<\/p>\n
His son Tim and grandson Ty will coach against each other on Friday night \u2014 Tim for Francis Parker, Ty for Borrego Springs.<\/p>\n
So who is Ed White rooting for?<\/p>\n
\u201dA tie, I hope,\u201d Ed said.<\/p>\n
What Ed doesn\u2019t want is one of those T-shirts you see on TV with Parker on one half and Borrego Springs on the other.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo. None of that,\u201d Ed said. \u201cMy wife (Joan) and I will flip a coin. One will wear Parker gear, the other Borrego Springs.\u201d<\/p>\n
It won\u2019t be his only flip of the day.<\/p>\n
Ed White will do the coin toss before Friday\u2019s eight-man game, which starts at 6 p.m. He will be joined by Tim and Ty in what could be a first \u2014 a three-generation salute to football.<\/p>\n
The pregame honor was the idea of longtime referee Bobby Hood, a former Chargers executive who has known the White family for decades. Hood will officiate the game.<\/p>\n
\u201cBobby reached out and got my Pops involved,\u201d Tom White said. \u201cWhat a great idea. We\u2019re a football family, and this is a unique situation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ed White started his high school career at Helix, but the family moved to the desert and he finished at Indio. White was an All-American at Cal and an All-Pro with the Chargers, teaming with fellow offensive linemen Billy Shields, Russ Washington, Doug Wilkerson and Don Macek to protect Hall of Fame quarterback Dan Fouts in the \u201cAir Coryell\u201d offense.<\/p>\n
Fouts has continually endorsed Ed White for the Pro Football Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n
Tim White, also an offensive lineman, played at Julian High School and Southwestern College.<\/p>\n
Ty, a receiver, played for Tim at Borrego Springs before suiting up at Southwestern College. Ty then went to work for his father as an assistant coach.<\/p>\n
Tim White left Borrego for Parker in April, where \u2014 as football coach and athletic director \u2014 he\u2019ll attempt to move the program back to the 11-man ranks.<\/p>\n
Ty White replaced his dad at Borrego. Friday marks the 24-year-old Ty\u2019s first game as a head coach.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is another level of \u2018Oh damn,\u201d Ty White said. \u201cIt\u2019s crazy. It\u2019s the game of the year, a must-watch game.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy dad and I didn\u2019t plan it this way. The schedule just kind of worked out. I was a waterboy for my dad\u2019s team for as long as I \u00a0can remember. Then I played for him. Then coached with him.<\/p>\n
\u201dWe both played at Southwestern College, where Jimmy Hammond was the trainer for both of us. And \u2018Hambone\u2019 was the trainer for the Chargers when my grandpa played.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ty White said he\u2019s learned that \u201cbeing a head coach carries much more responsibility than being an assistant.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ty is working on a bachelor\u2019s degree in education at Cal State San Marcos with an eye on a teaching credential. He wants to follow his dad and grandmother into the profession.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis situation is such a blessing,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is what I want to do. Kids want to learn, they need positive role models. I want to help and guide kids. I learned that from my dad and grandpa.<\/p>\n
\u201dThere are some challenges at Borrego Springs. It was 117 degrees on Tuesday for practice, so we lifted weights until it cooled to 108, and we had a limited practice.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tim White expects Ty to run the same offense that the pair ran at Borrego Springs.<\/p>\n
Francis Parker will counter with a new defensive coordinator: 30-year head coach Ron Hamamoto. The Union-Tribune\u2019s 2024-25 Boys Coach of the Year is in his first year on Tim White\u2019s staff.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo that will be a challenge,\u201d Ty White said. \u201cBut I\u2019ve got a few wrinkles prepared \u2014 hopefully things he\u2019s not expecting.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tim White said Parker will be prepared for anything Ty will throw at him.<\/p>\n
\u201dIt\u2019s my son\u2019s first game as a head coach, and I couldn\u2019t be prouder,\u201d Tim White said. \u201cI know he\u2019d like to hang a loss on the old man.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can\u2019t get lost in the emotion of the event. You have to coach it like it\u2019s any other game. Business as usual. But Pops is worried about not screwing up the coin toss. Ty and I are worried about winning our first game.<\/p>\n
\u201dSo it\u2019s not business as usual. And we all know that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ed White, perhaps the greatest offensive lineman in San Diego Chargers history, has a problem. His son Tim…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2044,181,74,76,75,127],"class_list":["post-445478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-high-school-sports","tag-latest-headlines","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}