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NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Ex-coach, homeless man forge friendship

    Think celebrities hang out only with other celebrities (or the occasional Kato Kaelin)?

   Turns out that Bill Parcells, a former NFL coach and now executive vice president of football operations for the Miami Dolphins, has forged a friendship with a homeless man who used to sell newspapers on a highway median, according to PalmBeachPost.com.

   What do they talk about? Football, which the Post reports as a rare topic for Parcells, which may be surprising for a person whose life is football. But for John Schoen, 57, the important thing was that “He treated me like a human being, like I actually mattered.”
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