My First Coach

Inspiring Stories of NFL Quarterbacks and Their Dads

Gary Myers

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Twelve
10 October 2017

Biography: sport; American football

"Tom Brady's father is an estate planner. Aaron Rodgers' father is a chiropractor. Cam Newton's father tried to sell his son to Mississippi State when he was leaving junior college. Archie Manning played 14 years in the NFL and never made the playoffs, but his sons Peyton and Eli combined to win four Super Bowls. Joe Montana is considered by many to be the greatest quarterback of all time, but his two sons bounced around college football with limited success.

""Fathers and Sons,"" will go behind the scenes to explore the unique relationship between quarterbacks and their fathers. The book will appeal to two generations: Fathers and mothers and their sons and daughters. It will explore the various approaches to parenting through the stories of some of the best quarterbacks and their fathers and include the back stories of fathers who were successful quarterbacks with sons attempting to follow in their footsteps.

It will provide life lessons and a guide to what to do and what not to do raising children with special athletic skills. Can young athletes overcome helicopter parents? Todd Marinovich was basically bred by his father Marv to be an NFL quarterback and although he was a first-round pick and drafted ahead of Brett Favre, he turned out to be a bust with many off the field issues. What would have happened if he was allowed to live a normal childhood? Kerry Collins had an overbearing father who moved him out of his home and to a different highs school because he didn't like the way his son was being coached. It took an emotional toll on Kerry and destroyed family relationships.

Brady came from a family with an athletic mother and three older sisters who all played college sports. He had such a close relationship with his father that when he decided to play at Michigan rather than stay in the Bay Area and play at Cal, his father needed months of counseling to overcome the separation. Even so, he never tried to influence Tom where to attend college, not wanting to be blamed if it turned out to be the wrong choice.

How did the kids with NFL aspirations deal with fathers who made it in the NFL? What kind of pressure did they have to overcome? What kind of pressure did the father who succeeded put on their son to be an athlete? Would the expectations be lower and the results greater if the father was an attorney or doctor? Was it better for the fathers to be overbearing or border on disinterested?

""Fathers and Sons"" will be the real-life compelling stories of quarterbacks growing up and how they took advantage or overcame the relationships with their fathers."

By: Gary Myers
Imprint: Twelve
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 159mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 500g
ISBN: 9781455598465
ISBN 10: 1455598461
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 10 October 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Gary Myers is the NFL columnist for the New York Daily News. He has authored four books: The Catch, a look at the iconic 1981 NFC Championship Game between the Cowboys and 49ers; Coaching Confidential, which details the pressures of being an NFL head coach; the New York Times bestseller Brady vs. Manning, an inside look at the greatest rivalry in NFL history; and My First Coach, which explores the many interesting facets to NFL quarterbacks and their relationships with their fathers. Myers has been covering the NFL since 1978. He was a member of the cast of HBO's Inside The NFL and the YES Network's This Week in Football. Currently the host of WFAN's 'Chalk Talk,' he is a voter for the Pro Football Hall of Fame and a former adjunct professor at Syracuse University.

Reviews for My First Coach: Inspiring Stories of NFL Quarterbacks and Their Dads

An [entertaining] examination of the relationships between several QBs and their fathers. --The Denver Post [This] book hits home. --Life of Dad One of the NFL's greatest scribes brings fans inside the minds and the locker rooms of some of the NFL's best. -- Big Lead Sports Gary's decades of covering the NFL and his unique relationships with the biggest names in the game make him the perfect person to tell the...story of these NFL legends. --Mike Tirico, NBC's Thursday Night Football play-by-play and Olympics host Gary Myers has decades of experience covering and reporting on the NFL...one of the sport's most respected and credible writers. -- Bob Costas, NBC Sports Gary Myers has always been one of the best NFL insiders in the business. -- Mike Lupica, New York Daily News PRAISE FOR GARY MYERS One of the finest NFL writers in the business. -- Boomer Esiason, former NFL Most Valuable Player, analyst for The NFL Today, and WFAN morning talk show host