View from the O-Line: Football According to NFL Offensive Linemen – Displacing Bodies
Displacing Bodies MY PLAYING CAREER was drawing to a close. I hadn’t entertained any notion I’d go into coaching. My career had been great until 1970. In 1969 Tiger Johnson left for the Bengals. His replacement, Ernie Zwahlen, started changing…
Excerpt from: View from the O-Line: Mushroom Gardeners
BILL“TIGER” JOHNSON had a huge influence on my career as a player and a coach. Tiger was my first line coach in the NFL. He would go on to become the Cincinnati Bengals head coach. He was an intellectual who…
Excerpt from “Pigskin Rapture: Four Days in the Life of Texas Football”
(The following is from ‘Pigskin Rapture: Four Days in the Life of Texas Football’ by Mac Engel. This excerpt is the introduction to last year’s high school rivalry between two neighboring towns, Midland and Odessa). Midland-Odessa Before the Dallas Cowboys,…
Book Excerpt: “The View from the O-Line” – ” Building Blocks”
(This excerpt is from ‘The View from the O-Line’ by Howard Mudd and Richard Lister) Building Blocks Few things tick me off as much as the term skill position. It suggests the only players possessing skill are quarterbacks, receivers, and…
Book Review: “The Perfect Pass: American Genius and the Reinvention of Football” by S. C. Gwynne
Book Review: “The Perfect Pass: American Genius and the Reinvention of Football” by S. C. Gwynne If you are a football coach, football fan or simply a guy who likes a good story, S.C. Gwynne scored a touchdown with his…