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  • Paperback: 448 pages
  • Publisher: Sports Publishing; 1 edition (January 14, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1613210213
  • ISBN-13: 978-1613210215
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 6.1 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
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By Thomas Roman on November 23, 2004
Format: Hardcover
This is not another "football book." It's about lessons learned and resiliency! I watched Marv Levy during Berman's Prime Time with a dictionary! And the book is no different - a vocabulary builder, yet easy to read with great humor.

I'm an NFL fan since '72, Seahawks since '76. I watched the Bills' no-huddle race to a 24-0 first quarter lead against the Eagles in 1990 and was blown away! The Levy coached Bills are the most entertaining team in any sport I've ever seen. Should Marv Levy be coaching in the NFL today? Of course he should! How does a team win 4 consecutive Conference Championships? - read the book.

The story brought back memories of my own little league days when I was #12. Even as an adult playing catch it's fun to do "Kelly to Reed."

I would not think any more of NFL Hall of Fame Coach Marv Levy had he won 4 Superbowls. Like the teams he coached and the man himself, this book is a winner!
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I devoured this book, alternatively laughing and wiping tears from my eyes. Marv Levy is a rare gem, who deserves all the success for which he's worked so hard. I'd love to see this ageless, brilliant man stalking the sidelines again, screaming four-syllable insults at the referee over blown calls.

Seriously - even if you're on the bench about football you will enjoy this book. Marv is a multi-dimensional guy with a keen wit and he writes in a warm, interesting conversational tone. I definitely recommend this one and in fact am back at Amazon today to purchase several for my friends and family.
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Recent history has been kind to Marv Levy as the magnificence of having won four consecutive AFC Conference championships is now replacing the earlier bitter pill of lost Superbowls. Marv Levy has become the ceremonial uncle of professional football today. He is to pro football what George Foreman is to pro boxing, the friendly enduring face of a brutal sport.

This is a campfire book, a grown-up bedtime story about a bright young lad from Chicago, one of those lucky folks who got paid to do what he liked. It is a tale remarkably devoid of rancor or regrets but rather a mixture of self-deprecating humor, a bit of self-serving forgetfulness, colorful characters, and the pleasures of the jocular world of organized football. In his preface Levy advises us that his writing style is the re-creation of the pleasures of his memory. Take away the Kansas City Chiefs and he would have had the perfect life.

But before arriving at Kansas City, there were the minor matters of World War II, college, and building a resume. Levy entered the Army Air Corps with the help of a friend who, shall we say, understated Levy's vision impairment. When this problem was later detected, Levy was scratched from pilot training and spent much of the war in Florida as a weather observer. After the war, already in possession of a bachelor's degree from Coe College, Levy began his much heralded graduate work at Harvard. In truth he opted out of the law school in three weeks, choosing instead to earn a masters in history and collecting inspiring anecdotes for use in the Buffalo Bills' locker room years later.

Levy had abandoned law school because of his desire to coach football.
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Boy, what a treat !! It sure is nice from time to time to read about the GOOD things of sport. In today's age of NHL greed and lockouts, basketball court violence, off the field player criminal behavior and athlete steroid and drug abuse, we desperately need a change.
Here is a tome which demonstrates the best which sport has to offer. It is not scandalous or looking to sell itself by making shockwaves in the sporting community. Instead, "Where Would You Rather Be..." demonstrates to the reader multiple instances of teamanship, passion, sportsmanship and true athletic "heart."
I will always consider Marv Levy to be one of the best men in American sport. I make this statement not based alone on his professional skills (which as the coach of the Buffalo Bills were tremendous), but mostly by the fiber of his character. I look at Marv in the same light as I would another Buffalo great, Pat LaFontaine. Both men of sport, but greater men of life.
Now we learn that not only can he coach, he is a pretty darn good writer as well. He is well paced, engaging and of course, well versed. Marv has been involved as an on-line sports writer for some time now, and it seems the experience had paid off.
As for the content, any fan of sport would find this a wonderful read. Having grown up myself in the Western New York community, I will never forget those "glory years" (as we refer to them here) of the Buffalo Bills. No team was more entertaining to watch than the red,white and blue. I was a medical student at the time and I remember trying to intensely cram academic material into my head at a breakneck pace all week, just to afford myself 3 hours on a Sunday afternoon to watch the game.
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