Wichita State Shockers Football - Wichita State Shockers Football Players, Bill Parcells, Wichita State University Football Team Plane Crash (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Wichita State Shockers Football Players, Bill Parcells, Wichita State University Football Team Plane Crash, Bob Seaman, Miller Farr, Ted Dean, Earl Edwards, Jim Waskiewicz, Sam Adkins, Bob Long, Jumpy Geathers, Tom Owen, Terry Joyce, Anthony Jones, Randy Jackson, Jimmie Jones, Marv Kellum, Roland Lakes, Bob Hoskins. Excerpt: Bill Parcells (born August 22, 1941, in Englewood, New Jersey) is the current Executive Vice President of Football Operations for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League. He is also a former American football head coach, most recently with the Dallas Cowboys from 2003 to 2007. He is known as "The Big Tuna", a nickname derived from a team joke during his tenure as linebackers coach of the New York Giants. Parcells won two Super Bowls rings with the Giants, defeating the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XXI and the Buffalo Bills in Super Bowl XXV. He also led the New England Patriots to Super Bowl XXXI and the New York Jets to the 1998 AFC Championship Game. He announced his third retirement from football on January 22, 2007 before returning to the sport later that year in a management position with the Dolphins. Parcells was born in Englewood, New Jersey, on August 22, 1941. He grew up in the nearby town of Hasbrouck Heights, where he was known by his birth name, Billionaire Paracelsus; however, after he graduated from high school, he legally changed his name to avoid incredulous stares whenever he introduced himself in public. His mother, Ida Parcells (ne Naclerio), was a housewife while his father, Charles Parcells, was a graduate of Georgetown Law School who had worked for the FBI before becoming a lawyer for Uniroyal Tires. He is of Irish and Italian descent. Prior to his sophomore year in high school, the Par... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=305029