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His style was iconic, and vintage ‘80s: aviator goggles, Jheri
curls, neck roll, boxy pads. For the first time, Dickerson is
telling his story. And he’s not holding anything back. Eric
Dickerson is the greatest player in Los Angeles Rams history and
the NFL’s single season record holder for most rushing yards. In
2019, Dickerson was named to the National Football League’s 100th
Anniversary All-Time Team. With an elegant upright running style
that produced some of football’s most-watched highlights, it was
said he was so smooth you couldn’t hear his pads clack as he
glided past you. But during his Hall of Fame career, his greatness
was often overshadowed by his contentious disputes with Rams
management about his contract. In the pre-free agency era,
tensions over his exploitative contract often overshadowed his
accomplishments. What’s his problem? went the
familiar refrain from the media. Can’t he just shut up and
run? It’s time to reexamine how Eric Dickerson was
portrayed. Watch My Smoke includes sixteen
photographsÂ
An essential and improbable football story that crosses continents,
cultures, and sports Christian Okoye never dreamed of playing
football. He passed hours playing soccer each day in Enugu,
Nigeria, until he outgrew the sport—physically. His focus shifted
to track and field, honing an elite talent for discus throw that
brought him to Azuza Pacific University in California. Only when
those Olympic dreams were inexplicably dashed did he pick up a
football for the first time at age 23. By 1987, Okoye was one of
the NFL's most beguiling draft prospects, a 260-pound running back
who was the picture of raw, unstoppable athleticism. The Kansas
City Chiefs selected him in the second round, and the "Nigerian
Nightmare" was born. In this timely autobiography, Okoye unfolds
his life story from the heart, detailing a childhood upended by
civil war, his unconventional path to football, and his glory years
with the Chiefs. He also candidly discusses the darker facets of
his American dream: an existence filled with chronic pain and and
memory loss which forces Okoye to grapple honestly with the biggest
question: If he had to do it all over again, would he play
football?
Super Bowl XLII was the greatest upset in NFL history. In A GIANT
WIN, Coach Tom Coughlin recounts the strategies and people that
made it possible. Coach Coughlin reveals the intricacies of the
game, revealing details only a coach would know. He also details,
more than ever before, his relationships with some of the greatest,
most iconic players of those Giants teams, like Eli Manning and
Michael Strahan. A GIANT WIN also provides a frame for Coach
Coughlin to discuss his life in football-including his years with
the Giants as an assistant coach in the late 1980s and 1990, when
he helped win a Super Bowl working under Hall of Fame Head Coach
Bill Parcells and alongside the coach he'd oppose in Super Bowl
XLII: Bill Belichick. A GIANT WIN is a self-portrait of one of
football history's most successful coaches during his signature
game.
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