In terms of college football success, there’s only one Nick Saban. But there’s a second “Nick Saban” out there elsewhere in the world.

In today’s best piece of journalism, AL.com’s John Talty found a Nick Saban doppelganger, who just happens to also be Grammy-winning guitarist Wayne Johnson from The Manhattan Transfer.

Johnson looks particularly like Saban in this video:

And Reddit found a great screenshot of Johnson making a Saban-like “I can’t believe you asked that question at this press conference” face.

That is absolutely long-haired Nick Saban.

Johnson, who is kind of like a guitar world Nick Saban, seems to enjoy that his doppelganger is the best college football coach in the country. From AL.com:

Yet, it didn’t take long for the accomplished guitarist to be dissolved down into a funny meme. If you only know the meme, you wouldn’t know he won a Grammy in 2004 for best pop instrumental album of the year. You’d have no idea he was part of The Manhattan Transfer, a jazz band so popular in the 1980s groupies followed them from stop to stop. You wouldn’t know he’s been around the world 25 times as part of his music career.

To Johnson’s credit, he’s taken the comparison well. The first time he watched the video he admitted it was hilarious.

“I was proud of it when I saw that,” he says. “I thought this is so cool. Nick Saban, in the college football world, is like a god.”

(AL.com)

About Kevin Trahan

Kevin mostly covers college football and college basketball, with an emphasis on NCAA issues and other legal issues in sports. He is also an incoming law student. He's written for SB Nation, USA Today, VICE Sports, The Guardian and The Wall Street Journal, among others. He is a graduate of Northwestern University.