Someone at ESPN apparently doesn’t know the meaning of the word “fictional” based on this graphic.

We can help out with that, as fictional refers to an author’s creation, typically made to tell a story.

Coach Herman Boone is not fictional, he very much existed and coached for T. C. Williams High School in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

He even arranged a preseason trip to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, just like in the “Remember the Titans” movie.

Here is the graphic ESPN put out featuring the best fictional coaches with Coach Boone featured as the first coach on the list.

The reactions to the graphic were pretty good:

https://twitter.com/BradyFreehill/status/1245343082045988864?s=20

After receiving so many responses, ESPN deleted the original graphic and replaced Coach Boone with Danny O’Shea from the “Little Giants” in the graphic below.