Brings Back One of the Greats!

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	• Johnny U: The Life and Times of John Unitas Tom Callahan Three Rivers Press, 2007 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 67 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Brings Back One of the Greats!

I couldn't put this one down! Almost made me late to work. Easy to read, bringing great names to life. As I read, I came to feel that I personally knew Unitas, Nomellini, Tittle, and the rest. It makes me sad that the days of "smash-mouth" football are gone!

Very good read

I wasn't around in the days of Unitas but reading this book gives one a feel of what life was like in the 1950's NFL and it definitely gives us a good look at Unitas the man.

Johnny Unitas comes across as a legend and leader. What more could a team or nation want from a sportsman?

If you want to read a good, solid book and get a fair bit of hero worship (not a bad thing), then this is the book to read.

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Great story

This item arrived quickly and in good condition. This is more 'times' than 'life', but the combination works well and delivers a great book.

Johnny U - Pure dynamite

It's not often that a book can "transport" the reader back to the time and with the feeling that they experienced at the time the depicted events were happening but "Johnny U" does just that.

As a kid growing up in a town on Maryland's Eastern Shore, the Colts were our team and Johnny U was our man. In our neighborhood, every kid who took his turn at QB in a vacant lot game became "Johnny U" (or Berry or "the Horse").

As I read this book, the times, the excitement, the flavor of that era once again became real to me. If you were a Colts fan during the time of Johnny U, you can feel it. If you are a younger fan of football, you can get a real flavor of the game and the place of that time.

It was a time when the Quarterback was the field general, calling most if not all the plays. It was the time before the "spike" when a QB in the two minute drill called 2 plays in the huddle and executed them both for gains or a win. It was a time when the sideline was the 12th man on the field and it was a time when your QB (#19) put the ball where only his teammate could catch it and stop the clock at the same time. We never seemed to worry if the Colts were down by less than 14 points at the 2 minute warning. Johnny U and company could (and often did) still pull out a win.

If you are a football lover or sports fan who wants an excellent history book, it doesn't get any better than "Johnny U".

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In a time ?when men played football for something less than a living and something more than money,? John Unitas was the ultimate quarterback. Rejected by Notre Dame, discarded by the Pittsburgh Steelers, he started on a Pennsylvania sandlot making six dollars a game and ended as the most commanding presence in the National Football League, calling the critical plays and completing the crucial passes at the moment his sport came of age.

Johnny U is the first authoritative biography of Unitas, based on hundreds of hours of interviews with teammates and opponents, coaches, family and friends. The depth of Tom Callahan?s research allows him to present something more than a biography, something approaching an oral history of a bygone sporting era. It was a time when players were paid a pittance and superstars painted houses and tiled floors in the off-season?when ex-soldiers and marines like Gino Marchetti, Art Donovan, and ?Big Daddy? Lipscomb fell in behind a special field general in Baltimore. Few took more punishment than Unitas. His refusal to leave the field, even when savagely bloodied by opposing linemen, won his teammates? respect. His insistence on taking the blame for others? mistakes inspired their love. His encyclopedic football mind, in which he?d filed every play the Colts had ever run, was a wonder.

In the seminal championship game of 1958, when Unitas led the Colts over the Giants in the NFL?s first sudden-death overtime, Sundays changed. John didn?t. As one teammate said, ?It was one of the best things about him.?

From the Hardcover edition.

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