🏈 Framed Autographed/Signed Henry Winkler Coach Klein 35x39 The Waterboy SCLSU Mud Dogs Orange Football Jersey JSA COA — The Authenticated Signature of Henry Winkler in Character as Coach Herman Klein from One of the Most Beloved Sports Comedies of the 1990s

🏈 The Waterboy was released in November 1998 — an Adam Sandler film whose premise was exactly as absurd as the movie was entertaining, following Bobby Boucher, a deeply sheltered Louisiana waterboy whose untapped capacity for violence when antagonized made him the most feared defensive player in fictional college football. Henry Winkler played Coach Herman Klein — the anxious, stuttering, brilliantly bumbling head coach of the South Central Louisiana State University Mud Dogs, a program whose dismal record changes the moment Bobby Boucher becomes the centerpiece of their defensive scheme. Coach Klein is the kind of character that only Henry Winkler, who spent years as one of television's most beloved presences in Happy Days, could make sympathetic in the middle of pure physical comedy — a coach whose fear of Mama Boucher is only exceeded by his belief in the player she's trying to keep off the field.

🏈 The Waterboy occupies a specific place in the catalog of 1990s sports comedies — the kind of film whose lines have been quoted continuously since its November 1998 opening weekend, whose characters exist in the imagination as vividly as real coaches and players for the generation that grew up watching it. "You can do it!" "Mama says alligators are ornery 'cause they got all them teeth and no toothbrush." "Now that's what I call high quality H2O." Coach Klein's moments are equally memorable — the nervous sideline pacing, the unconditional belief in Bobby when no one else would recruit him, the final game in the Bourbon Bowl that the Mud Dogs needed Bobby to play in and that Mama Boucher kept him away from until the third quarter.

🏈 The SCLSU Mud Dogs Orange Jersey — Framed and Ready

🏈 The South Central Louisiana State University Mud Dogs orange football jersey is one of the most recognizable fictional sports uniforms in comedy film history — the orange that the Mud Dogs wear when they go from perennial laughingstock to legitimate contender on the strength of Bobby Boucher's tackling ability and Coach Klein's belief in his most unusual player. A 35x39 version of this jersey, signed by Henry Winkler in character as Coach Klein, framed and authenticated by JSA, is the piece for every Waterboy fan whose collection is missing its most essential autograph. Condition: NOS.

🏆 JSA Authentication

🏆 James Spence Authentication has verified Henry Winkler's signature. Condition: NOS.

🏈 Henry Winkler as Coach Klein. The Waterboy. SCLSU Mud Dogs Orange Football Jersey. Framed 35x39. JSA COA. Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia. Condition: NOS.