High School Football 'Coach of the Year' Caught on Tape Making Homophobic Remarks, Calling Michelle Obama a 'Big Fat Gorilla' Neetzan Zimmerman · 02/01/13 03:35PM The head football coach at Lauderdale County High School in Alabama gave a number of students a lesson in bigotry recently when he expressed his distaste for "queers" and "big fat gorilla" Michelle Obama in the same breath.