When Dirk Koetter’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers take on Andy Reid’s Chiefs on Sunday at Arrowhead Stadium, it will make for a reunion that goes back not merely to their days at the University of Missouri or Texas El-Paso immediately before that.
It harkens to their very roots with the now-defunct Division II program at San Francisco State, where they sold hot dogs amid campus protests to augment the football “budget” and taught classes and took 10-hour bus rides and made about $22,000 a year.
“How simple life was back then,” Koetter, in his first season as Tampa Bay head coach, said in a phone interview last week.