Season of Life: A Football Star, a Boy, a Journey to Manhood
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- ISBN13: 9780743269742
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Joe Ehrmann, a ex- NFL football star and volunteer coach for the Gilman high school football team, teaches his players the keys to successful defense: penetrate, pursue, punish, like. Like? A ex- captain of the Baltimore Colts and now an ordained minister, Ehrmann is serious about the game of football but even more serious about the purpose of life. Season of Life is his inspirational tale as told by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jeffrey Marx, who was a ballboy for the Colts when he first met Ehrmann.
Ehrmann now devotes his life to teaching young men a whole new meaning of masculinity. He teaches the boys at Gilman the precepts of his Building Men for Others program: Being a man means emphasizing relationships and having a cause larger than yourself. It means long-suffering responsibility and leading courageously. It means that empathy, integrity, and living a life of service to others are more vital than points on a scoreboard.
Decades after he first met Ehrmann, Jeffrey Marx renewed their friendship and watched his childhood hero putting his principles into action. While chronicling a season with the Gilman Greyhounds, Marx witnessed the most extraordinary sports program he’d ever seen, where players say “I like you” to each additional and coaches profess their like for their players. Off the meadow Marx sat with Ehrmann and absorbed life lessons that led him to reexamine his own unresolved relationship with his father.
Season of Life is a book about what it means to be a man of substance and impact. It is a moving tale that will resonate with athletes, coaches, parents — anyone struggling to make the right choices in life.
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Marx’s as-told-to tale is a consistently clever, sophisticated and savagely honest portrayal of a ex- NFL star who later transformed the cruelty 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 tale 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 powerful career achievement would’ve been enough for a lifetime(i.e. NFL glory days); but, this is not the case. The ex- superstar quickly, and disappointingly, learned that his values in life — quick money, quick women, booze, drug temptations, a disreligious predisposition; in fleeting, a hedonistic lifestyle Siamese with with an unrefined and uncultured temperment — did not make him pleased. Nor well. His health suffered, he grew injured repeatedly from the constant batterings playing pro ball — all while his newly establish economic status surged. A Season Of Life…is a gorgeous tale 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 incomprehensible torrid tale of a once legendary man, once trapped in the Assasin of Fame, then unrestricted quiz-quick, as if his relief 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 egotism of this tale’s fantastic– but ultimately, and inevitably — childish and helpless strongman.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
As an elite, very expensive private school, Gilman seemed all incorrect as a setting for Joe and Biff’s program. Yes, Gilman gives financial aid for their token inner city kids, but accurately most of the kids who need help go to public schools. Of course all private and parochial schools say they do not recruit athletes, but this book has Bif admitting that he heard about a stud black quarterback in the inner city and he goes to their home and inquires about the possibility of the kid going to Gilman! What hyprocrisy! I just thought the coaches were kind of delusional. The kids too, because 95% of them grew up very privileged. Want a real tale??? Try Cleveland Glenville High School and the job Ted Ginn Sr has done there with persons kids; inner city black kids with limited means. Don’t get be incorrect, the message of the book was powerful, but focusing the book on rich kids at an elite private school seems to knock some of the luster off the book.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
This book reminded me of the fantastic times I have veteran with youth sports, but more than that it is also a very inspirational read. Jeffery Marx writing is remarkable and very touching about the Gillman team and his friendship with Coach Ehrmann. Every father and coach should sit down with this book to be reminded of how we want to be treated , and how we should treat others.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
Joe Eherman has captured what is incorrect with sports. This is a must read for all coaches.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
It wasn’t what I thought it would be but I loved it.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5