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Briggs: For Maumee's Mike Jacobs, a 'surreal' homecoming scripted in football heaven

Please don’t let my bosses in on the secret, but some columns write themselves.

This is one of them.

Mike Jacobs — Maumee kid, son of a Toledo football coach — returns after a prodigious 28-year odyssey to lead the Rockets.

Are you kidding?

It’s almost too perfect.

To be at the pomp-filled introductory news conference Friday at Savage Arena was to appreciate the magic of a homecoming scripted in football heaven.

How many college coaches get to start a dream job seven miles from their childhood home — where his overjoyed mom, Judy, still lives — with everyone from his pediatrician (longtime team doctor Roger Kruse) to some of his best friends from high school in the crowd?