
Teddy Bridgewater can still draw a crowd, even if he is now a high school football head coach. Hundreds of fans lined the field to watch Bridgewater coach spring ball, underscoring not just his celebrity in South Florida but the insatiable appetite the state has for the sport.
Bridgewater, a former Heisman Trophy candidate in college at Louisville, was a first-round pick in the 2014 NFL draft. Upon his retirement following 10 years in the NFL, Bridgewater announced that he would become head coach at Miami Northwestern High School (Miami, Florida).