Daniel Mattay was a fictional character on the TV-Series "Wings." He was played by actor Jack Ging.
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Mattay was a football coach who worked at Siasconset High School. He had earned the reputation for three aspects: being able to sleep through anything, his heavy drinking and being abusive to the players. He had been particularly abusive to both Brian and Joe Hackett, calling them "the Hackett sisters." Whether or not he taunted and abused the other players is unrevealed.
Although Joe had excelled at baseball, captaining the Siasconset team during the spring, it seems he lacked in football during the autumn. Coach Mattay took advantage of this to berate Joe. While an undergraduate of Siasconset High, Joe realized that the coach was a heavy sleeper as a loud noise startled the entire team during a sleepover after an away game, but failed to provoke Coach Mattay. One group who got along better with the coach, was the Biggins family. Roy Biggins had been a student of Coach Mattay, as was his son. Roy liked the ruthless attitude of the coach.
Decades passed and Coach Mattay aged. He retired from sports and Siasconset High School elected to honor him by naming a new gymnasium after him. He moved away from Nantucket since he quit sports and flew to Nantucket in anticipation of the ceremony. He landed at Tom Nevers Field, where he saw Joe and Brian working at Sandpiper Air. The brothers attempted to be civil and congratulate him on the school's honor, thinking their days of sports were over. However, aging and retirement had not changed Mattay's core, as he still snidely called them "the Hackett sisters" and did not care what they did in life if it did not have to do with athletics. This prompted the brothers to concoct a revenge plan. Remembering the fact that he could sleep through anything, they devised a plan to embarrass him after dark.
Coach Mattay checked into the Century Inn, where the bellboy found him deceased, having died in his sleep. A doctor was called, where he said without a formal diagnosis, the man died of cirrhosis. The doctor's reasoning was simple, he found a half-full bottle of bourbon on the nightstand and remarked how alcoholics and heavy drinkers often consume this to sleep at night. The doctor then told the bellboy to leave the body until morning. Immediately afterwards Joe and Brian snuck into Mattay's room through an open window. They dressed him in a wig, nightgown and makeup and took compromising photos, ending with one where it appeared Joe and Brian were kissing him (not to be released to others, more for their personal amusement).
The following morning, Helen came into the Sandpiper office with horrible news about Dan Mattay. Joe and Brian remarked "We know" and were laughing uproariously, which caused Helen increasing shock. When they admitted to causing it all for the coach, Helen screamed that they were murderers. This caused the tomfoolery to stop and the brothers said all they did was pull a prank. Helen said the coach died; to which Joe and Brian suddenly stop and think what happened. They confessed having dressed the coach as a woman, and were somewhat now put off that they did it to a dead body. Helen said that Brian and Joe need to admit what happened, but the brothers were hesitant.
At Siasconset High School, the christening of the new gymnasium had become a funeral service for Dan Mattay. Mattay's hulking son had come, and Helen warned Joe and Brian were in big trouble as the son was his dad's only pallbearer. Roy gave a eulogy, but left in disgust once word got out that Coach Mattay was a crossdresser.
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