Chris Foerster is trying to get his life back on track after an embarrassing video was released of him in October, costing him his job as the Miami Dolphins’ offensive line coach.
Foerster, 56, has been an NFL coach since 1993, spending time with seven different franchises. He appeared to be a respected coach in the league until a woman released a video he had sent her of him doing cocaine.
On Wednesday, NFL.com published a piece by Tom Pelissero, who visited with Foerster following the coach’s 60-day inpatient rehab program. Foerster says he kept his cocaine addiction a secret, which is what left those around the league so shocked.
From Pelissero’s piece:
“Nobody really knew” about his addiction, Foerster says. “I kept it a secret.” (Several team sources told me the same this week. “Shocked,” one fellow assistant coach said.) But Foerster says his alcohol abuse stretches back roughly 30 years.
Foerster is now in an outpatient treatment program that includes regular drug and alcohol testing. He is also part of a 12-step program.
He claims that the footage that was released was the last time he had used cocaine, though he acknowledged that was the last of a stint of 8-9 straight days of usage. Sometimes he would go into work at 4 a.m. after a night out.
Foerster’s life more or less fell apart with the release of the video. He wants to return to coaching, though he probably will have to give it a lot more time and prove that he is now clean before someone will consider hiring him.
