ROSEMARY BEACH, Fla. — From behind the wheel of his topless black Jeep, Gerry DiNardo, the football coach turned television analyst, is appropriately dressed for the job he’s been thrust into.
On this sun-splashed May day, he’s a tour guide to the rich and (football) famous.
In white shorts, flip-flops and a T-shirt, DiNardo gestures toward roadside attractions as his vehicle bounds down the ocean-hugging highway of 30A, a 19-mile stretch wedged between the party cove of Panama City and the tourist magnet of Destin. The thoroughfare bisects a dozen secluded beach communities across a region named after the roadway itself—Thirty-A.