God's Coach: The Hymns, Hype, and Hypocrisy of Tom Landry's Cowboys

by Skip Bayless

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671708961
• ISBN13: 9780671708962
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

A lot of dirt on America's Team

Bayless doesn't pull any punches and looks like he has several axes to grind. A must read for any die-hard old school Cowboys fan.

Very Fair Description Of Greatness, And Then The Fall

Tom Landry became a captive of his own image. In this book veteran sports writer Skip Bayless pulls back the curtain and shows how a decent man, and Christian, had 20 straight winning seasons as a coach in the NFL, while remaining cold and emotionally distant from his players, and then watched his team decline as the NFL changed while he refused to. A Dallas fan since 1981, this reviewer was there for the Dallas fall from grace. He saw the decline, and could not account for it. This book answered many of the questions he had as to why Landry was still trying to run an offense and defense perfected in the 1960's in the 1980's; why Landry was never seen scouting players in the off-season; why did so many players and even coaches under Landry seem to have so many issues with him once they left the team. An eye-opening book that shows how a humble Christian man from Mission, Texas, became for 20 years the winningest coach in NFL history........and then fell into the trap of trying to live up to his own imagae and tried to hang on too long as the league changed around him. Discover the truth about Tom Landry's firing by Jerry Jones. Did Jones fly personally to meet with Landry on a golf course to rub his face in the fact that he was being fired? Or was Landry improbably trying to hide from the Cowboy's front office, delaying the inevitable? Was Jones chortling at telling Landry he was being replaced by Jimmy Johnson? Or did he want to personally assure Landry that he was going to get the $1 million dollars the last year of his contract called for? Read the book and find out.