The inside story of the only undefeated team in NFL history, the 1972 Miami Dolphins?by the Hall of Fame quarterback who led it to victoryHall of Fame quarterback and long-time ABC college football announcer Bob Griese is a living football legend. Now, on the 40th anniversary of the 1972 Miami Dolphins' incredible championship season, Griese tells the behind-the-scenes story of the team both on and off the field as it achieved a feat no other team has ever succeede...

A celebration of five decades of professional football in MiamiThe 2015 NFL season marks the Miami Dolphins' 50th anniversary and a time for fans to celebrate one of the league's most storied franchises. The Dolphins at 50 takes fans on a season-by-season tour of the Dolphins' history, including re-living the team's perfect 1972 season, a feat that still stands alone in NFL history. This commemorative book also includes a countdown of the most noteworthy p...

From FOX NFL Sunday analyst and legendary Hall of Fame head football coach Jimmy Johnson—the first to win both a college football championship and a Super Bowl—the long-awaited, intimate, no-regrets memoir recounting his extraordinary life and insightful lessons on winning, at every level.Hall of Fame football coach Jimmy Johnson’s house isn’t on the way to anything. Yet, his private sanctuary on the Florida Keys’ Islamorada islands is a popular destinatio...

AN NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEEAmerica’s most popular sports media figure tells it like it is in this “raw, deeply authentic, and immensely entertaining” (Bob Iger, #1 New York Times bestselling author and CEO of The Walt Disney Company) book, not only dishing out his signature, uninhibited opinions but also revealing the challenges he overcame in childhood as well as at ESPN.Stephen A. Smith has never been handed anything, nor was he...

Bill Parcells may be the most iconic football coach of our time. During his decades-long tenure as an NFL coach, he turned failing franchises into contenders. He led the ailing New York Giants to two Super Bowl victories, turned the New England Patriots into an NFL powerhouse, reinvigorated the New York Jets, brought the Dallas Cowboys back to life, and was most recently enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Taking readers behind the scenes with one of the most influential and fascin...

The series you thought you knew: the first book written with the complete co-operation of the whole team“They’d stolen our beer and our steaks, and then to make it worse . . . they give us this Russian beer—the warm, skunky sh*t, and not the good, cold Labatts our sponsor sent. I remember thinking, ‘These pricks will never beat us again! They are not going to win another f*cking game.’”—Rod GilbertWhen the Summit Series began on September 2, 1972, Cold War ...

Over two unbelievable decades, the New England Patriots were not only the NFL’s most dominant team, but also—and by far—the most secretive. How did they achieve and sustain greatness—and what were the costs?In It’s Better to Be Feared, Seth Wickersham, one of the nation’s finest investigative sportswriters, presents the definitive account of the New England Patriots dynasty, capturing the brilliance, ambition, and ruthlessness that powered it. Having covered the team since Tom Brad...

In the 1970s the Pittsburgh Steelers ruled the world of pro football as Chuck Noll's dynastic team won four NFL championships led by Hall of Famers like Terry Bradshaw, Mean Joe Greene, Jack Ham, and Franco Harris. This is the story of the magnificent 1978 team which defeated the Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl III, earning the third ring for the men who made their living in the city of three rivers.

In a time “when men played football for something less than a living and something more than money,” John Unitas was the ultimate quarterback. Rejected by Notre Dame, discarded by the Pittsburgh Steelers, he started on a Pennsylvania sandlot making six dollars a game and ended as the most commanding presence in the National Football League, calling the critical plays and completing the crucial passes at the moment his sport came of age.Johnny U is the first authoritative b...

"Coach" takes place in a small, rural town in the mid nineteen fifties. It is the story of the town, the high school football coach and his players. The town's people and his players idolize Coach. To be a player for Coach is the ambition of every Highburg boy.When he is found murdered a dark secret is revealed and things happen in Highburg and not good things! The startling ending is sure to stun the reader. Please write a review. Thanks.

Weis was taught football by some of the best minds in the game: Bill Parcells and Bill Belichick. Parcells would give him a life-defining break in 1990 by hiring him as an assistant on the New York Giants staff. For a Jersey guy who loved sports, this was a dream come true, especially when Weis won his first championship in his debut year in the NFL. He'd always wanted to be a sports announcer—the next Marv Albert—but he'd caught the coaching bug and was now in a position to learn from the...

Southern Methodist University in Dallas is one of numerous prestigious universities in Texas. The school’s football team was the pride of the university and the city. Before the late 1970s, however, the relatively small school had trouble recruiting and struggled to keep up with the big-time football universities that were often more than double its size. Under pressure to compete, the SMU football program engaged in ethics, rules, and recruiting violations for years. When the corruption c...