Parcells: A Football Life

A Football Life

De: Bill Parcells, Nunyo Demasio

Narrado por: Jason Culp

Bill Parcells may be the most iconic football coach of our time. During his decades-long tenure as an NFL coach, he turned failing franchises into contenders. He led the ailing New York Giants to two Super Bowl victories, turned the New England Patriots into an NFL powerhouse, reinvigorated the New York Jets, brought the Dallas Cowboys back to life, and was most recently enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Taking readers behind the scenes with one of the most influential and fascinating coaches the NFL has ever known, Parcells will take a look back at this coach’s long, storied and influential career, offer a nuanced portrayal of the complex man behind the coach, and examine the inner workings of the NFL.

©2014 Bill Parcells and Nunyo Demasio (P)2014 Random House Audio

Parcells is a true Genius!

Would you listen to Parcells: A Football Life again? Why?

Yes I would, you can learn so much from his out take on life.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Parcells is my favorite character due to his ability to absorb knowledge from others.

What about Jason Culp’s performance did you like?

Great delivery, his ability to bring events to life with his change of tone was awesome.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes I wish I had more time to listen to more chapters at once, I could just not get enough of it.

Any additional comments?

I highly recommend this book to everyone, it is about the football, it is about the man and how his great out look on life and ability to learn from others is what sets him apart from others. Everyone can benefit from his knowledge of life and his approach to problems.

GREAT BIO!

I can really appreciate this book as a coach. There are so many insights and useful strategies that I already employ and others that I will use in my life moving forward.

Great book for all football fans!!!

I enjoyed this book so much that I had trouble putting it down. The narrator does A excellent job telling the story of Bill Parcells life. I especially enjoyed all the behind-the-scenes information. Any fan of Bill Parcells or just football in general will really enjoy this book and performance.

What a life.

What a book, about a amazing coach. At times it felt a little long but a great book with so many stories within the story.

A true legend

Having the privilege of following coach Parcells career, I thoroughly enjoyed this behind the scenes look at this true NFL Legend .

Great book

It was a great insight to a great coach. Even though it was quite long in length, the book flowed well.

Better than expected...

For some reason, i expected a preachy or arrogant book. However, this book was just the opposite: a thorough retelling of a football coach's life, with the right balance of personal and professional stories.

It was nice to hear the other side of controversies without the provocative angles used by some in the media. Instead, we simply hear one person's take on an issue without definitive conclusions or claims that "I was in the right!"

That said, the one drawback in the book was that i was hoping for more coverage on the comments and abrassiveness that made me interested in Parcells' book to begin with. I feel like the biggest stories were indeed covered. However, if you knew nothing about him, you'd come away wondering why in the world so many people found him controversial.

Overall, the book exceeded my expectations and was indeed an engaging football book.

Trent's Take

Great book. Very revealing insights into Parcel's Football life. My wife, not a big sports fan, also thought it was a fun book.

Very interesting book about a legendary coach.

What made the experience of listening to Parcells: A Football Life the most enjoyable?

The overall story about Bill Parcells' life was very interesting. From his decision to give up what certainly would have been a lucrative career with Pizza Hut in its early days of existence to the Giants' first Super Bowl win this book had my attention the whole way.

Who was your favorite character and why?

It was an auto-biography so the main character.

What about Jason Culp’s performance did you like?

Jason Culp did very well reading this book. The only complaint I have is minor and that is that he mispronounced several names of well known football persons like Ed Debartolo among a few others. Overall great performance though.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

There actually were some emotional moments for me. Parcells' honest, open recollections of his interaction with men like Lawrence Taylor and Curtis Martin showed a side of him I never would have guessed existed.

Egregious error in the very beginning.

The very beginning of this book, chapter 1, 2:30-2:46, Has an egregious error. It states that the Spanish flu of 1918 killed 50 million people wiping out 1/4 of America’s population. The actual numbers are 675,000 Americans which represented less than one percent of the United States population at the time (105 million). After hearing this, I was wondering how the rest of the book would go. An easy google search would’ve cleaned this up. Geez. Coming from a guy known for precise detail on the football field, I was surprised to say the least.

The rest of the book did not disappoint, however. It was a great listen from start to finish, sans the error in the beginning. He clearly admits his flaws as a husband and father. Kind of sad in a way. You don’t get a second chance when your children are young and impressionable. Besides football, he had no other other interests in his life. Without it, he was a lost soul. Many of his players looked up to him as a father figure and he was a terrible father to his own children and a bad husband as well. I give him a lot of credit for honesty.

It’s long but worth the investment.