Golden Boy
Autor Paul Hornungen Limba Engleză Hardback – oct 2004
Hornung always loved the good life. He had girlfriends all across the country, and he was a regular at Toots Shor's and at clubs in Chicago and Los Angeles. A frustrated Lombardi once asked him whether he wanted to be a player or a playboy, and his teammates joked about his Hollywood ambitions. On game days Hornung was always ready to play, but the night after a game -- and sometimes even the night before -- was a different story.
For Hornung, the good life came at a price: his gambling cost him a year's suspension from the NFL in 1963. He accepted his punishment, refusing to implicate anyone else, but in this autobiography he reveals just how widespread gambling was in the NFL.
However, on the playing field Hornung and his Packer teammates made football history. Bart Starr, Max McGee, Jim Taylor, Ray Nitschke, Jerry Kramer, Jim Ringo, Ron Kramer, Forrest Gregg, Fuzzy Thurston, Willie Davis, Herb Adderley, Willie Wood -- they're all here, and Hornung has great stories to tell about them and about some of their biggest games together.
Golden Boy is a must-read for football fans, a colorful, candid slice of pigskin history from one of the game's immortal legends.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780743266192
ISBN-10: 0743266196
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 1-16pp b-w inserts
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Simon&Schuster
Colecția Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10: 0743266196
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 1-16pp b-w inserts
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Simon&Schuster
Colecția Simon & Schuster
Notă biografică
Paul Hornung is a member of the high school, college, and pro football halls of fame. After his playing days ended, he began new careers as a broadcaster, an actor, and a pitchman in television commercials. He currently broadcasts Monday Night Football on the Westwood One radio network. He lives in Louisville, Kentucky.
Cuprins
Contents
Foreword
Preface
1. My Life on Scholarship
2. They Called Me "Cuddles"
3. Stiff-Arming the Bear
4. The Golden Boy Is Born
5. "Mom, I Won the Heisman!"
6. The Siberia of Sports
7. The Golden Boy Goes Hollywood
8. Meet the Guys
9. The Leader of the Pack
10. Football as It Was Meant to Be
11. The Breakthrough Year
12. How JFK Saved the Day
13. Golden Boy Inc.
14. Money Won Is Twice as Sweet as Money Earned
15. If You Want to Dance, You've Got to Pay the Fiddler
16. Calling Dr. Lombardi
17. When the Saints Come Marching In
18. Chicago, My Kind of Town
19. It Was His Way or the Highway
20. Good-bye, Vince; Hello, Howard
21. Halls of Shame and Fame
22. Where Have You Gone, Lindsey Nelson?
23. My Unbuckle Specials
24. Once a Notre Dame Man, Always a Notre Dame Man
25. To Err Is Human
26. The End Zone
Appendix
Index