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Shula the coach of the NFL's greatest generation

"Spanning seven decades, the notorious loss of Super Bowl III, and an historic undefeated season with the Dolphins, Shula is the definitive biography of a coaching legend. Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1997, Don Shula remains the winningest coach of all time with 347 career victories and the onl...

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Main Author: Ribowsky, Mark (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Shula, Don, > 1930-
Football coaches > United States > Biography.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Shula pride
  • A sovereign masculinity
  • Catechism
  • "Who is John Carroll?"
  • The Cleveland Caliph
  • One tough sonofabitch
  • Coach Shula
  • Fly me to the moon
  • National Frustration League
  • Sweet
  • Sour
  • "The biggest thing since bubble gum"
  • Hired by the man who fired Flipper
  • Butch, Sundance, and a cuddly Cypriot
  • "Stay ready, Earl. Stay ready"
  • Rapture
  • "Camelot disappeared"
  • "It's almost bizarre"
  • Subplots and counterplots
  • "This is still my product"
  • New kid in town
  • "Shula is god"
  • No need to rush
  • Don Voyage
  • A granite-jawed deity, still.

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