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Sunday, August 7, 2011

27. Nothing Fancy!!


X was an American high school gym teacher, basketball coach, realtor and bar owner from Jacksonville, Florida. He gained huge popularity in 1970s. The New York Times called him "arguably the most influential high school gym teacher in American popular culture.“ His dislikeness for the loud music and notoriety for strictly enforcing the school's policy against boys having long hair led to the birth of a rock legend. Give me the funda!!





5 comments:

Milan said...

the guy whose name inspired the name of the band lynyrd skynyrd

Nishant said...

lynrd skynrd is the band and the gym teacher is leonard skinner

Arpit said...

Lynyrd Skynyrd

Dhruv said...

Leonard Skinner

Sumit said...

Answer:-
The band named themselves as lynyrd skynyrd in order to pay a mocking tribute to their physical-education teacher Leonard Skinner.
The pic is of "Leonard Skinner Realty" sign which was used for the cover of the band's third album "Nuthin' Fancy"