STUMPY LEGG FOUND — AND HIRED Hall of Fame 12th Avenue coach reunited with former assistant McMahon

Black Dogs coach Jim McMahon found former Bakers head coach Stumpy Legg working as a parking attendant at Grey Goose stadium.

By Ariel Mutha-Tafoya
FSN Sports

Legendary Bakers coach Stumpy Legg, for whom a street in the “Baker Nation” area of Nashville was recently named, may not yet have a spot in the Ring of Honor at the Bakers’ Grey Goose Stadium, but it turns out he’s been there all along.

Legg was last seen as a public figure in 2004, when he reportedly rejected a contract offer from the Bakers by snorting it up his nose and jumping out an open window at the team’s offices. Unbeknownst to the Bakers, however, the recent inductee in the new NFFA Hall of Fame apparently had been working part-time as a parking lot attendant at Grey Goose Stadium and depended on food stamps for much of each year. “I needed the gig,” he told reporters yesterday, just after they learned that the East Nashville Black Dogs had hired him as the team’s QB coach and “Offensive Consultant.”

Legg’s secret identity as a parking lot attendant came to light by chance. Black Dogs coach Jim McMahon, who once served as an assistant when Legg coached the Bakers, arrived last Saturday afternoon at Grey Goose Stadium for one of the monthly gun and ammo shows that provides an extra revenue stream for the Bakers during the off-season. As McMahon, who said he had come to shop for AR-15 assault rifles, wheeled his Vincent Black Shadow motorcycle into the lot, he noticed that the flagman directing vehicles had a very familiar face.

“We just started talking,” McMahon told reporters at the 3 Crow Bar over one of his favored Morning Glory Margueritas. “We hugged, we laughed, and especially we cried, and then I asked him to come to work for the Dogs.”

By the end of the media availability, many of the jaded and hard-bitten reporters were in tears, too. “It’s a shame how the Bakers treated you,” said Woody Larry, amid sobs, looking for a response from Legg.

Stumpy Legg on the Bakers sidelines in 2003.

“Well,” said the gray-haired coach, who was renowned for his dapper appearance on the sidelines, “it’s true that there were some hard feelings over the fact that they fired me while I was in a coma. But the truth is I’ll always be a Baker at heart. You know, I could have made quite a bit more at the Bubbas’ parking garage but I didn’t want to do that out of my love for Mr. G.Q. Denney. No one will work harder than me to help the Black Dogs win another title next year, but I can’t honestly tell you there won’t be some mixed feelings when we go back to the Goose. Even if they don’t want me there, it’s still sort of my home.”