SAN DIEGO (KUSI/ FOX 5) — The reserved dining room at Filippis Pizza Grotto in Kearny Mesa was supposed to hold the expected crowd honoring the late John Beam, a Kearny High School alum and former head football coach at Laney College in Oakland, while a donation was made in support of an upcoming memorial golf classic in his honor.
There was just one problem: the venue could not accommodate not only the swarms of Komet alumni who showed but also an outpouring of attendees from across the community whose lives the late, great Coach Beam touched, as the overflow of attendees spilled into the nearby dining area…