All the Moves I Had: A Football Life

All the Moves I Had: A Football Life

Pro Football Hall of Famer Raymond Berry is a true giant of the game. He lacked blazing speed or imposing size, yet he revolutionized the wide receiver position; starred in footballâ€™s â€œGreatest Game Ever Played,â€ the 1958 NFL Championship; and was part of footballâ€™s most legendary pass-catch combination with his quarterback and friend Johnny Unitas. Football wouldnâ€™t be what it is today without â€œUnitas to Berry.â€

In All the Moves I Had, Berry brings readers inside a football career that spanned four decades and featured a Whoâ€™s Who of the NFL. As a receiver for the Baltimore Colts of the 1950s and 1960s, he nearly scientifically developed an inventory of moves and fakes to get open, and intensely studied defensive backs and their coverage techniquesâ€”pioneering these integral parts of todayâ€™s passing-game preparation. In this book he breaks down, play-by-play, his historic performance in the contest that secured pro footballâ€™s popularityâ€”the 1958 final that was the NFLâ€™s first to end in overtime and first to be nationally televised. He recounts coaching for the Dallas Cowboys and head coaching the New England Patriots, a team he took to the Super Bowl. One of todayâ€™s senior members of Pro Football Hall of Fame, Raymond Berry is a national treasure of football history, strategy, technique, andâ€”just as importantâ€”friendship, family, love, and faith.

â€œHe was his own man. He was poised, as though he had pondered everything a little harder than anyone else. . . . He was deconstructing and reinventing the position of wide receiver.â€ â€”Mark Bowden in The Best Game Ever

â€œHe didnâ€™t play a game of football, he engineered it.â€â€”legendary Los Angeles Times sportswriter Jim Murray

â€œThe best.â€ â€”Johnny Unitas
Country USA
Brand Lyons Press
Manufacturer Lyons Press
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2016-08-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781493017805

Country	USA
Brand	Lyons Press
Manufacturer	Lyons Press
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2016-08-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781493017805

All the Moves I Had: A Football Life

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