Wonderfully written saga of an extraordinary, courageous man

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	• Season of Life: A Football Star, a Boy, a Journey to Manhood Jeffrey Marx Simon & Schuster, 2004 - 192 pages average customer review:based on 77 reviews view larger image
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We need more teachers and coaches like this

In a day when coaches and parents regularly make the news for attacking athletes and other sports fans, it's great to read about a great role model, teacher, mentor and friend. A wonderful read and an inspiration for other sports programs

This is great read for EVERYONE.

I agree with all of the reviews, save the long one from August 31st - not sure he read the book, but instead chose to write a "biography" (as he perceived it) on Joe, rather than review the book. But anyway... this book is really worth reading, and not just for men, and not just to enhance a father son relationship. This book can help brothers, mothers, sisters, and friends. I think what Joe is teaching is not necessarily how to be a good man, but how to be a good human being. It's really not about football -- it's about how make the world a better place, and make your life, and your relationships more meaningful.

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Wonderfully written saga of an extraordinary, courageous man

Saw Joe Ehrman and Jeffrey Marx speak recently at an event in San Diego. Joe Ehrman is one courageous individual, and in addition, he is eloquent, open, and wise. He shared some of his experiences and observations with us, and from his first few words I had tears running down my face. This man has what it takes to heal our society, and boy, does it need it! Jeffrey Marx is a wonderful writer, and he also shares some of the angst this culture shovels out to its males. Almost missed these two, because I didn't want to hear some crap from one of those yelling, demeaning, brutal coaches who are everywhere in sports these days. But I stuck around, and when I saw a clip from HBO which has Coach Ehrman asking the boys: "What is the purpose of a Coach?" and in unison the boys answer "To love us!" my attention was riveted on Coach Ehrman and his wonderful message. Highly recommend this beautifully written book about an extraordinary, courageous, loving man.

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This book is about my senior season

This book was written during my 2002 senior football season at Gilman School in Baltimore, MD. For any true football fan, especially high school football, this book is a must have. 2002 was an intense year with many highs and lows. Nevertheless, we perservered and finished on top. This book is a testament to Coaches Ehrman, Poggi, Foreman, White, Payne, and all the other coaches on the staff.
I was number 78

Martin Taragano's Footballl Book Review

Marx's as-told-to tale is a consistently clever, sophisticated and savagely honest portrayal of a former NFL star who later transformed the brutality and viciousness of his pro football career into a diametrically oppossed legacy of gentleness, altruism and cultural distinguishment. When he was a player the focus of this wonderful story was an admitted "egoist," raised in a dirt-poor environment, and then fabulously hurled out of his impoverishment sewer with a tackling shot of superstardom, fame, and wealth galore as a pro(in the NFL). It might seem to some that such an athletic career achievement would've been enough for a lifetime(i.e. NFL glory days); however, this is not the case. The former superstar quickly, and disappointingly, discovered that his values in life -- fast money, fast women, booze, drug temptations, a disreligious predisposition; in short, a hedonistic lifestyle Siamese with with an uncultivated and uncultured temperment -- did not make him happy. Nor well. His health suffered, he grew injured repeatedly from the constant batterings playing pro ball -- all while his newly found economic status surged. A Season Of Life...is a beautiful story of a searching man not certain of what he should be or is searching for; it'll probably be optioned(if not already) by tinsel town, then greenlighted ASAP. It's at once a tearjerker book written with a virility of nonfictional prose too rarely seen these days as well as a mindbogglingly unfathomable torrid tale of a once famous man, once trapped in the Assasin of Fame, then released quiz-quick, as if his release was not a freedom but an imprisonment, even a slaughter, even though he had already suffered slaughter in the NFL. Moreover, as if his football sanctuary was never a sanctuary, but rather a Tartarus whose tentacles of Hell seized and ripped apart the once frentic, rebelliously-tinged egoism of this story's great-- but ultimately, and inevitably -- childish and helpless strongman.

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