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• Because these gifts are just for laughs, you can be frugal when you buy them. Save the big bucks for a meaningful gift and look for the joke presents at local discount stores or go online for sports-related gag gifts. For your purposes as a gag gift hunter, dollar stores, party supply stores, personalized T-shirt and novelty stores and gag gift shops, as well as online outlets have the right price and a wide variety of products sure to get your coach laughing. Get a few team parents to chip in and boost your target price range.
  
  

Winners

• The coach is proud that he is having a winning season. If your team follows tradition and douses him with Gatorade after a winning game, go ahead and give him a case of the stuff for a Christmas gag gift, to let him know you think he's a winner all year long. Tell him he can pour it over his own head in the shower during the off-season. Buy your coach a rain poncho and tell him that you want him to be prepared for the next winning season and the many dowsings he's sure to experience.
  
  

Screamers

• Coaches need to shout directions out to players on the field, and sometimes coaches turn into screamers. That means a coach may lose his voice from time to time. Give your coach a Christmas gag gift of cough drops, lozenges or throat sprays. Buy a whole case if your coach gets laryngitis frequently. The cough drops are a little insurance for the team's success. Look for a toy megaphone for those times when he loses his voice. Give him a real megaphone or bullhorn if his voice is clearly loud, joking that you just can't hear him.
  
  

Strategy

• Some coaches take the job so seriously that they obsessively strategize during every waking moment. For a basketball coach, give him a toy hoop that fits over the back of a door or over a waste basket so he can think of winning shots while at home or work.Give the football coach a small toy table-top football game so he can practice winning strategies at home. For other coaches, go with a mini dry erase board, so that he can draw up plays anytime and in any place.