Da Coach

Author:

By Rich Wolfe

Format:

Paperback

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Price:

£9.99

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American Football, Biography, Chicago Bears

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Further Details

• Published: 1st Sep 2001
• ISBN: 1572434392
• Pages: 240

From Word of Sport:

A collection of memories and anecdotes from the players, coaches and friends who reveal the larger than life character of Mike Dikta, irascible coach of the Chicago Bears and New Orleans Saints. Full of tales of the famous tantrums and intensity that made him such a frighteningly dominant figure in football.

From the Publisher:

You may love him, you may hate him. But whatever you think of Da Coach, you know he ducks no punches.

Tough, no-holds-barred stories told by Ditka's drinking buddies, combative players, loyal teammates, friends and fans, show Da Coach through the eyes of the people closest to him. Raucous and amusing, Da Coach proves that Ditka's no-nonsense attitude and give-'em-hell demeanor on the playing field was certainly no act. Da Coach contains accounts from such football legends as:

* GALE SAYERS, DICK BUTKUS, and WALT GARRISON, remember going shoulder to shoulder on the gridiron with the monster of the midway himself

* JIM McMAHON, MIKE SINGLETARY, and THOMAS HOLLYWOOD HENDERSON, share incredible stories of Da Coach's intense sideline strategizing, skirmishes, and scuffles

* TOM LANDRY, DAVE McGINNIS, BOB COSTAS, and a host of other coaches and colleagues, recount Ditka's early years as a renegade roughhouser and his incredible success as the man in charge of the 1986 NFL Champions, the Chicago Bears.

Da Coach celebrates the life and colorful times of a true sports original who has it all-guts, glory, and personality to spare.