Jon Stewart is making his exit from The Daily Show this week, and the people want retrospective. Among the countless clips of the politics-defying genius that came out of his 16-year tenure on Comedy Central, we are left with some reminders that Stewart—or Leibowitz, as he was known before taking on his middle name for the stage—had an athletic past. Namely, that he was a soccer star. Kind of.In his foreword for his former William and Mary soccer coach Al Albert's book, Stewart sings a woeful tale of not making the varsity team his first year, and instead being relegated to JV, "which turned out to be not so much a program as a sign-up sheet in a Greek kid's dorm room."In a video produced by FTW, Albert tells the tale of what he remembers of the player nicknamed "Leibo.""Yeah he was funny, but he wasn't a clown—he was obviously quick-witted," said Albert, who stays in touch with Stewart and has attended several tapings of The Daily Show. "There was one apocryphal story about a game at Randolph-Macon where he was being taunted by the opposing fans, and he turned around with a very quick retort and basically they ended up cheering for him for the rest of the game, because they thought he was cool."Stewart's humor and modesty aside, the record stands that he scored a winning goal against No. 1 UConn in tournament play. If Stewart had stuck it out for another decade, then maybe we would have the fortune of seeing him sport one of these kits:Best that he stayed in the anchor chair.
Jon Stewart's college soccer coach on what he was like at William & Maryhttp://t.co/SGoBn7KL22 pic.twitter.com/Vaaeb9iCnX
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