Coach Ed Thomas and Aplington-Parkersburg football
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- (Video from Fall 2008) The Register followed Coach Ed Thomas and the A-P High School football team for their first home game following the devastating tornado of May 2008. Ed Thomas was shot and killed Wednesday, June 24, 2009.
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I am just a few years younger Than Coach Thomas. I coached HS football for a few years and it began to make me think. What If? Why? I don't have an anwser. But I was fortunate enough to meet Coach Thomas at a HS athletic conference, and he was the genuine article. We both had the same last name and so when somebody would call out for coach Thomas both our heads turned at the same time. So we sat and ate together. I wish I had got to know him a bit better. Our Prayers go out to his family.
I wish I coulda met coach Ed Thomas he was an awesome godly man he touch the lives of thousands and his voice is very motivating
My father also coached football, I was his assistant quarterback coach for three years, and he was also at the same athletic conference, so I guess we all three were there together. I relocated to Oklahoma, a took a head coaching job with a NAIA division 1 college team. My father has since passed . God Bless the Thomas Family, The Town, and his team, friends and students at the school. I believe that he was a good man. Keep him in your heart and remember him like that.
My prayers are with his family. He seemed like a wonderful man.
I'm 40 yrs old, and played a lot of football and baseball when I was young. I lived in Cedar Rapids, IA for a short time 73-76'. I just read this story an hour ago, and it deeply saddens me to see this kind of stuff happen, & much too often. I have no idea what gets into the heads of young ppl these days, because you rarely if ever heard a story like this in the 70's or 80's when I was growing up. My heart go's out to Ed's family and the ppl that knew him. WTF?
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being from the community, i can tell you, that was not the case, the were psychological issues that may or may not be released, but it was not about being bullied or a grudge. believe me. thoughts and prayers out to everyone that this affects.
how can you say he got "pwned" i may be just 12 but when i met him after the tornado he was my hero he was a very nice man RIP
live in parkersburg that was a devastating day
The hard part is that the "alleged" Shooter was a former player.
Your right. I posted this when I was mad, and I didn't mean it. Ed's in a better place now. It's just really low what he did. Killing a coach who just got his team back up after a big tornado. He was Heroic.
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hey man, i didn't like what happened either, but there is no reason to be saying anything like that
He was the coach of one of our Green Bay Packer linesmen. Aaron said the Ed's greatest legacy will be that Ed was a devoted follower of Jesus Christ on and off the field.
I think is terribly sad that all the news can report is the celebrity stuff but hide away stories of people like Ed Thomas.
ed thomas was not a jerk to any body he treated his stars and benchwarmers the same. he was very good. Our football team played them and they killed us and not litterly i shoudn't say kill but the destroyed us. O this is a terrible loss. 7:45 surveys the weight room 7:46 pulls out gun out of car. 7:47 shoot Ed thomas 8 times and runs to parents house sits in car. arrested sometime between then and 9:00. wow. He was one of the best coaches in iowa history.
@jtal00007 Please do not be rude. Mr. Becker is an ill human being. He deserves to get better. Don't you think that was what Coach Tomas would Have wanted.
Amazing to me how some can mix Jesus with Football and practically Deify Sports. What about those who are not Athletically gifted? As if Jesus if he were alive today He would be wearing a Coaches uniform and blowing a whistle on the sidelines shouting command to the team.
I am sure there are devoted Christians on the High School Chess team or in the Band or even the Reading Club. But nobody films a story about them because it does not sell like Football does.
RIP Ed Thomas
FAITH FAMILY FOOTBALL
RIP
The psycho who killed this man, should BURN IN HELL when he dies.
Rest in Peace couch. Don't worry, we will rebuild the community just the way it was before. We will be stronger then ever!!!