The Perfect Pass: American Genius and the Reinvention of Football Audiobook (Free)

An “superb sports background” (Publishers Weekly) in the custom of Michael Lewis’s Moneyball, award-winning historian S.C. Gwynne tells the amazing story of how two unidentified coaches revolutionized American soccer at every level, from high school to the NFL.

Hal Mumme spent fourteen mostly losing seasons training football before inventing a potent passing offense that could soon shock players, delight fans, and terrify opposing coaches. It all started at a little, overlooked college known as about The Perfect Pass: American Genius as well as the Reinvention of Soccer Iowa Wesleyan, where Mumme was mind trainer and Mike Leach, an attorney who had under no circumstances played college football, was hired as his offensive line trainer. In the cornfields of Iowa these two mad inventors, drawn together by a distributed disregard for conventionalism and a love for Jimmy Buffett, started to engineer the purest, most intense passing game in the 145-12 months history of football. Implementing their “Air Raid” criminal offense, their teams-at Iowa Wesleyan and later at Valdosta Condition and the School of Kentucky-played blazingly fast-faster than any team ever endured before, plus they routinely beat teams with a lot more talented athletes. And Mumme and Leach achieved it all without even a playbook.

“A superb deal with for all gridiron followers” (Kirkus Evaluations, starred evaluate), AN IDEAL Move S.C. Gwynne explores Mumme’s leading role in changing football from a run-dominated sport to a pass-dominated one, the overall game that tens of an incredible number of Americans now watch every fall weekend. Whether you’re an informal or ravenous football fan, that is “a rousing tale of creativity” (Booklist), and “Gwynne’s reserve ably relates the storyplot of that technology as well as the successes of the person who devised it” (New York Journal of Books).