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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN num: 9780060572129
ISBN number: 0060572124
Label: Harper Paperbacks
Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 272
Printing Date: November 01, 2005
Publishing house: Harper Paperbacks
Release Date: November 01, 2005
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Studio: Harper Paperbacks
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Bill Parcells was living in self-imposed exile from the National Football League sidelines. The Tuna had earned living-legend status after coaching the Giants, Patriots, and Jets from the skid-row district of the NFL and transforming those teams into champions. The final weeks of the 2002 season found Parcells working as an analyst at the ESPN studios. His heart aching, Parcells was like a televangelist with no cripples to heal. The Tuna urgently yearned for another lost cause.
In Dallas, Cowboys' owner Jerry Jones—described by author Mike Shropshire as 'a man involved in a heroic struggle to overcome what had been diagnosed as a terminal face-lift'—was suffering through sleepless nights. Although his once-proud pro football powerhouse traveled beneath a banner that read 'America's Team,' it had suffered three straight 5-11 seasons. This team was so sick, it had bedsores.
After a clandestine meeting aboard Jones's private jet, parked at a New Jersey airport, Parcells agreed to abandon his East Coast roots and travel south to restore life to the Cowboys. The Tuna and Jones needed each other in the worst kind of way, so a shotgun wedding was performed. The pundits of the national media joined hands and shouted, 'Parcells and Jones can't stand each other! They're too set in their ways! It'll never work!'
As usual, the pundits were wrong. With Parcells the ultimate motivator and so-called Jock Whisperer applying his craft, Dallas rolled to a 10-6 regular-season record and shocked the NFL by making the playoffs. When the Tuna Went Down to Texas details the saga of how this unlikely partnership of men 'too brittle for tango lessons, but not yet blind enough for assisted living' amazed the sports world and serves as absolute proof that while the truth is not always stranger than fiction, it's usually a lot funnier.
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THIS BOOK IS ABOUT BILL PARCELLS TAKING OVER AS HEAD COACH OF THE DALLAS COWBOYS. ALONG THE WAY WE GET TO READ ABOUT JERRY JONES'S FACE LIFT, JERRY JONES QUITTING DRINKING AND A BUNCH OF OTHER UNRELATED JUNK TO FILL THIS BORING BOOK. AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED, THE ONLY INTEREST IN THIS BOOK CAME IN THE SECOND HALF OF THIS WHEN WE TAKE A RIDE GAME BY GAME THRU THE SEASON AND ENDS WITH THE COWBOYS MAKING THE PLAYOFFS BUT LOSING THEIR ONLY PLAYOFF GAME. OTHER THAN THAT, THIS BOOK IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED FOR THOSE WHO SUFFER FROM INSOMNIA AND WANT AN INSTANT CURE.
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As someone that knows Mike Shropshire personally, I can assure you that he does not love Jerry Jones (quite to the contrary actually). Armadillo, doing what he accused the author of doing, wrote a review in pure ingorance, taking ambiguous pieces of humour and taking them directly into technicality, a problem that many readers yesterday seem to have with works of literature. The book is well-written and bases itself solely on what it is supposed to do: get into depth with Bill Parcells in his very first year as the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys and related material, which it does.
The book is still a great read for, if nothing else, a retrospect of the 2003 Dallas Cowboys season, putting inspiration into a story and a team that is now, with the changes the team has gone through in the last three years, insignificant.
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The author is biased(he loves Jerry Jones), misinformed(lot of incorrect information), and just plain mean(blasting Jimmy Johnson, Houston, and Dave Campo). If this book is legitimate to you, you probably have the same traits. Probably the worst Dallas Cowboy book out there. Check out this book at the library and ask yourself, "How did this book ever get published?"
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