Mangini, Mangino: You're Excused for Being Confused
One vowel difference between them. Which created a lot of confusion for me, anyway.
Mark Mangino is the oversized coach of Kansas football. The Jayhawks are 11-1 and headed to the Orange Bowl.
Eric Mangini is coach of the New York Jets, the guy who blew the whistle on Bill Belichick and the illegal sideline filming.
Mangino/Mangini. Neither guy very prominent until this season.
It was one of those things ... when Kansas was going good, I thought, "Oh, yeah, that's the man-jeen-something coach."
Then when the Jets were in the news, I was thinking, "OK, that's the man-jeen-something guy."
Only in the past few weeks have I realized these are two different guys with almost identical surnames.
Most of this ... is about too many names and numbers in the world to keep track of.
Only recently did I realize Shavlik Randolph and Zach Randolph are different guys. I thought maybe the first was the real first name of the second. And don't get me started on the NFL's two (at least) Steve Smiths and Roy Williamses ...