Being a retired sportswriter in Texas, this book wAs amazing

An absolutely unique story of innovation, superior intelligence and guts of a guy who has revolutionized the game of football...a MUST read for any offensive minded sports fan.

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The Perfect Pass

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

No, I only ordered this because I listened to Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell twice each. SC Gwynne is one of my all time favorite authors. I thought maybe he could make this interesting. I gave it a good go but it just wasn't that interesting to me. I think football fanatics and coaches might be inspired but I was disappointed.

What do you think your next listen will be?

Probably something on WWII

Did the narration match the pace of the story?

It was good.

Could you see The Perfect Pass being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?

NO!

Any additional comments?

Please, Mr. Gwynne, pick another historical figure to write about. Maybe something else about Texas History or South American history and the Incas. I LOVED your other two books.

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Perfect Pass is for the die hard fan

If you love the game at every level, you will love this book! I grew up in Texas and Oklahoma, where I’m pretty sure there must be schools where you can’t graduate until you can diagram a reasonable offense and defense on a white board. A great story of people, programs, personality, and the life of a coach and his family. It was beautifully written and narrated, and I loved every bit of it.

Fascinating story

The perfect pass is an interesting book that details the coaching career of Hal Mumme and some of his key assistants in their search for an offence strategy that was indefensible. Having coached primarily at sub par football schools, in almost each case he was able to make immediate and positive impacts by the utilization of his evolutionary (and simple) offensive approach. Getting rid of the playbooks with hundreds of different plays and replacing them with one that contained less than tweny, he was able to dissect defensive schemes and use their own methods against them with quick but simple reads by the quarterback. Most of his quarterbacks were at the top of the national rankings in statistics, yet with the exception of Tim Couch at Kentucky, none of them were heralded for their natural abilities such as arm strength or speed. His coaching legacy lives on in many of the current college head coaches and air raid quarterbacks. Even the SEC has evolved to incorporate many of his concepts such as the hurry up no huddle, and many of the air raid plays he designed. Juggernauts Alabama, Auburn and LSU all have implemented aspects of his offense and with his primary assistant Mike Leach now the head coach at MSU he will continue to affect how the game is played. Narration was OK, not great, sounded a little like Mr Spock discussing American football. Worth the credit.

we get to go behind the curtain with the air raid

S. C. Gwynne is a talented writer and this particular subject matter suffers from a lack of exploration. There are lots of sports stories but this is a virtually unique look behind the curtain at the development of the air raid offense .... a monumental event in football. I hated for it to be over could listen to this red another 8 hours with stories about Coach Leach Coach Mumme their passion for football and more specifically for throwing the football. This is a great sport story well told and thoroughly enjoyable. If you love football or you love history and you love great stories this one's not to be missed.

Fascinating character study and history

This was a fascinating character study of Hal Mumme and passing offense in football. The performance was lacking in parts, the narrator has a nice voice, but I found it distracting when he would change his voice for women.

What every football fan wants to listen to!

Incredibly well-written. Great story & character portrayal! This book informs us how the football landscape that we love today was created.

The best offenses are in the Big12, here's why.

The best football book I have ever read. I have read Empire of the Summer Moon by this author and considered it as one of my top 5 books of all time. I am of course biased as Football and History are my two life passions. In my opinion, due to the Air Raid system and its many variations, the current Big12 is the future of the game of American football. In other words, when you watch, for example, TCU and Texas Tech play, you are watching the type of game that everyone across the Nation will be playing in the years to come. This is evidenced by the growing number of Coaches and QBs going from the Big12 to the NFL. This book brilliantly tells the back story of how this all came to be. If you are a football fan, this book is a must. It's not that "they don't play defense in the Big12" as many say. Its that the offenses are just that good.

AIR RAID!

Thoroughly enjoyed this book! History of Hal Mumme and Mike Leach and their wonderful friendship that led to the creation of the Air Raid offense.

Engaging!

As a lifelong student and fan of the game, this is a must-read. Once I started listening, I found any excuse I could to come back and continue experiencing every up, down and sideways turn this interesting story had.