The 2,003-Yard Odyssey
The 2,003-Yard Odyssey

Author: Joe Zagorski

Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers

Published: 2024-05-24

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13:

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“It was a season where the impossible became possible. It was a season where the hard to believe became believable.” --Marv Levy, Pro Football Hall of Fame Coach. The 1973 Buffalo Bills made pro football history. They had an offense that broke several important rushing records during that memorable year. And they had a superstar running back by the name of O.J. Simpson, who broke a glass ceiling of sorts by becoming the first man -- and indeed the only man -- to ever rush for more than 2,000 yards in one 14-game regular season. That glory-filled accomplishment provided the celebrated culmination to this epic tale of a week-by-week journey from an initial goal to its triumphant ending. In The 2,003-Yard Odyssey: The Juice, The Electric Company, and an Epic Run for a Record, several members of that Buffalo Bills team recall their memories of that year. They discuss how that 1973 season began with a bunch of question marks, then how a boast by one of their offensive linemen led to a challenge for the whole squad to address. A major focus in this book are the feats of the incomparable O.J. Simpson, who earned pro football fame and glory with his record-breaking 1973 performance. This story recounts how Simpson set a mark that was thought of by most people to be impossible to achieve. It was an odyssey unlike any other in NFL annals, and it is explored in concentrated depth and detail within these pages. Joe Zagorski is a member of the Pro Football Writers of America and the Pro Football Researchers Association. He has written several previous books about various teams and players of the NFL. He is also a contributing writer to the website Pro Football Journal and the administrator of the Facebook page, The NFL in the 1970s. He resides in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Marv Levy, who wrote the foreword for this book, is a coaching legend in both the United States and in Canada. He led the Buffalo Bills to four straight Super Bowl appearances from 1990 to 1993. He is also an honored member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly: Buffalo Bills
The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly: Buffalo Bills

Author: Scott Pitoniak

Publisher: Triumph Books

Published: 2007-08-01

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1617491330

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What fans don't love to relive the good times of their favorite team? Likewise, in a twisted sort of way, what fans can really resist a self-pitying look back on some of those times that tested their allegiance? Those forgettable games, seasons, and plays that made the good times even better?The Good, the Bad, & the Uglypresents all the best moments and personalities in the history of the Buffalo Bills. It also unmasks, but doesn't revel in, the bad, the regrettably awful and the unflinchingly ugly. In entertaining—and unsparing—fashion, this book sparkles with Bills highlights, lowlights, wonderful and wacky memories, legends and goats, the famous and the infamous. You'll relive the 50 sacks of the fearsome 1964 defense but also the anemic offense of the 1-13 1971 Bills. The hurry-up offense led by Jim Kelly but also the nine turnovers in Super Bowl XVII.The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly: Buffalo Billsincludes the best and worst Bills teams and players of all time, the most clutch performances and performers, the biggest choke jobs and chokers, great comebacks and blown leads, plus overrated and underrated Bills players and coaches. There are Bills you loved for all the right reasons, and those you couldn't stand, sublime and embarrassing records, and trades, both those savvy and savagely bad. Brawls and fights. Rivalries. Compelling photos. And much, much more. If you're a through-thick-and-thin Bills fan,The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly: Buffalo Billsis especially for you. It will remind you of the good and great times and bring a knowing smile about some of those other times, when you proved to yourself just how loyal you are. For everyone else, this warts-and-all portrait of the Bills will provide countless fond memories, goose bumps, and laughs.

The NFL in the 1970s
The NFL in the 1970s

Author: Joe Zagorski

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2016-07-08

Total Pages: 445

ISBN-13: 0786497904

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The 1970 merger between the American Football League and the National Football League laid the foundation for a stronger brand of gridiron competition, providing a new level of excitement for fans. This book examines each year of the NFL's pivotal decade in detail, covering the great names, great rivalries and great games, as well as the key changes in both strategy and rules. Along the way, the author explains how pro football developed into a near-religious American tradition.

If These Walls Could Talk: Buffalo Bills
If These Walls Could Talk: Buffalo Bills

Author: John Murphy

Publisher: Triumph Books

Published: 2023-09-12

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1637271913

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A behind-the-scenes perspective on Buffalo Bills history from longtime broadcaster John Murphy As the longtime play-by-play voice of the Buffalo Bills, John Murphy knows what it means to live and breathe Bills football. In If These Walls Could Talk: Buffalo Bills, Murphy opens up about his life and career in Buffalo and provides insight into the team's inner sanctum as only he can, from Jim Kelly to Josh Allen and beyond. Featuring conversations with players and coaches past and present as well as off-the-wall anecdotes only Murphy can tell, this indispensable volume is your ticket to Bills history.

Buffalo Bills
Buffalo Bills

Author: Sal Maiorana

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780762737437

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The Buffalo Bills have long hogged the headlines and dominated the sports scene in Western New York. This book chronicles the highs, and some of the lows, of the Bills franchise and provides a keepsake of memories for the team's prideful and passionate fan base.

Pandora's Garden
Pandora's Garden

Author: Clinton Crockett Peters

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2018-05-01

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 0820353213

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Pandora’s Garden profiles invasive or unwanted species in the natural world and examines how our treatment of these creatures sometimes parallels in surprising ways how we treat each other. Part essay, part nature writing, part narrative nonfiction, the chapters in Pandora’s Garden are like the biospheres of the globe; as the successive chapters unfold, they blend together like ecotones, creating a microcosm of the world in which we sustain nonhuman lives but also contain them. There are many reasons particular flora and fauna may be unwanted, from the physical to the psychological. Sometimes they may possess inherent qualities that when revealed help us to interrogate human perception and our relationship to an unwanted other. Pandora’s Garden is primarily about creatures that humans don’t get along with, such as rattlesnakes and sharks, but the chapters also take on a range of other subjects, including stolen children in Australia, the treatment of illegal immigrants in Texas, and the disgust function of the human limbic system. Peters interweaves these diverse subjects into a whole that mirrors the evolving and interrelated world whose surprises and oddities he delights in revealing.

The Early Iron Age
The Early Iron Age

Author: John K. Papadopoulos

Publisher: American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Published: 2018-05-15

Total Pages: 1123

ISBN-13: 1621390071

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This volume, the first of two dealing with the Early Iron Age deposits from the Athenian Agora, publishes the tombs from the end of the Bronze Age through the transition from the Middle Geometric to Late Geometric period. An introduction deals with the layout of the four cemeteries of the period, the topographical ramifications, periodization, and a synthesis of Athens in the Early Iron Age. Individual chapters offer a complete catalogue of the tombs and their contents, a full analysis of the burial customs and funerary rites, and analyses of the pottery and other small finds. Maria A. Liston presents the human skeletal material, Deborah Ruscillo presents the faunal remains, and Sara Strack contributes to the pottery typology and catalogue. In an appendix, Eirini Dimitriadou provides an overview of the locations of burial activity in the wider city.

The Epic City
The Epic City

Author: Annette Giesecke

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13:

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Restraining and taming Nature was fundamental to the Hellenic urban quest. Classical Athens, with her utilitarian view of Nature, exemplified this ideal, which also informed the urban endeavors of Rome and was expressed through the domestication of Nature in villas and gardens, and through primitivist and Epicurean tendencies in Latin literature.

Audio Cassette Odyssey's
Audio Cassette Odyssey's

Author: Matt Sattel

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2003-11-24

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 0595298478

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A missing king, a ferocious dragon and a diabolical goblin wizard; how can a thirteen year old from Chicago deal with such troubles? For his birthday James Montgomery receives an old-fashioned tape recorder and a single tape from his long dead father. He is told that when he inserts the tape and presses the record button, he will participate in a fantastic story of adventure. Follow James in his first tape, as he must become a hero to save the fantasy kingdom of Agreloth from an army of goblins. First he must somehow destroy a dragon the size of three school buses!