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The fisrt comprehensive biography of one of football's most volatile personalities.

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Overview

The fisrt comprehensive biography of one of football's most volatile personalities.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780878333165
  • Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
  • Publication date: 10/1/2002
  • Edition description: 2002
  • Pages: 204
  • Product dimensions: 6.30 (w) x 9.22 (h) x 0.91 (d)

Meet the Author

Bill Chastain spent 12 years as a sports writer for the Tampa Tribune, working as a columnist and baseball writer during that period. His article and column have appeared in numerous national publications and his novel. The Streak, is due to be released in March 2003. He currently serves as President of Chastain Communications, a media consulting-public relations business based in Tampa, FL where he resides.

Bill Chastain spent 12 years as a sports writer for the Tampa Tribune, working as a columnist and baseball writer during that period. His article and column have appeared in numerous national publications and his novel. The Streak, is due to be released in March 2003. He currently serves as President of Chastain Communications, a media consulting-public relations business based in Tampa, FL where he resides.

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Preface

Growing up in Florida in the 1960's I can remember how all kids loved Steve Spurrier, glamorous star quarterback for the University of Florida. Nobody stood taller than the Gator's No. 11, who became the epitome of a college football hero: good looking, talented and capable of leading miraculous comebacks.

Looking back, it's funny how the memories of Spurrier's playing carreer manage to get blurred. While doing the research for this book, I rediscovered the fact that Spurrier truly was the real deal as an athlete, which I belive has been obscured by his coaching success.

Spurrier didn't get on by guile and intelligence as an athlte, though they were part of the package; he did it with athltic ability that he began to develop at an early age. Peeling through the archives of Spurrier's life reaffirmed what he had been as an athlete and became the most enjoyable aspect of writing this biography.

I remembered many of Spurrier's successes from myy childhood reading accounts written by Rom McEwen of the Tampa Tribune, a man I later work with while a sportswriter for that same newspaper. Other accounts of Spurrier's wizardry were new to me; Spurrier won the Heisman Trophy, but I had never realized the depth of his success dating back to high school days - when he competed in everything and rarely lost at anything - to the miracle comebacks playing for Florida. Confdence and competitiveness have been his curse and his blessing. Those special qualities complemented his athletic ability on one hand while casting him as an arrogant figure on the other.

Unlike many gifted athletes who excelled playing the games but couldn't coach a lick, Spurrier took to coaching football games to another dimension, making him the exception.

There is no gray to Spurrier; the man is as black and white as they come, and he is passionate, which echoes over and over in what his friends and associateds say about him. Whether you consider spurrier an "evil" genius or simply a genius, you can't dispute the fact that he is a football artist, given the creative things he has done as a coach.

Steve Spurrier has led an interesting life, and this is the story of that life.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCATION
FOREWARD

THE HEAD BALL COACH PULLS A SHOCKER
THE FOUNDATION
A HISTORY OF FOOTBALL FRUSTRATION
GATOR BEGINNING
AN EMERGING FORCE
EVERYBODY'S ALL-AMERICAN
HEISMAN BOUND
GOING TO THE NFL
YEARS OF FRUSTRATION BEGIN
EXPANSION FOOTBALL
COACHING BECKONS
BANDIT BALL
BACK TO DURHAM
GOING HOME
SEC BULLIES
THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON
HIGH EXPECTATION
BRING ON THE NFL
FIRST STEPS

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 30, 2004

    Great book

    If you enjoyed the years of the 'Fun and Gun' at the University of Florida, you'll love this book by Bill Chastain. He captures the story behind Steve Spurrier's rise to become one of the premier football coaches in America. If you are a Florida fan or a fan of college football, you need to read this book

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