Leonard Skinner, the basketball coach and gym teacher who inspired the name of the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, died Monday in Florida, his daughter said. He was 77.
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He was working at Robert E. Lee High School in Jacksonville in the late 1960s when he sent a group of students to the principal's office because their hair was too long. Those students later formed a band, using a variation of Skinner's name for their own.
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Years after sending the young students to the office, Skinner found his son listening to an album called "Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd."
In another example of the enigmatic nature of the man's name, when Walter Cronkite was reporting on the 1977 plane crash that killed three members of the band, he referred to the group as "Lin-yard Skin-yard."
This one's for Leonard...
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