Swagger: Super Bowls, Brass Balls, and Footballs―A Memoir
Book by Dave Hyde
DETAILS
Publisher : Scribner (November 15, 2022) Language : English Hardcover : 288 pages ISBN-10 : 1668008629 ISBN-13 : 978-1668008621 Item Weight : 1.04 pounds Dimensions : 6 x 1.2 x 9 inches Best Sellers Rank: #992 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #2 in Football Biographies (Books) #3 in Football (Books) #46 in Memoirs (Books) , From FOX NFL Sunday analyst and legendary Hall of Fame head football coach Jimmy Johnson—the first to win both a college football championship and a Super Bowl—the long-awaited, intimate, no-regrets memoir recounting his extraordinary life and insightful lessons on winning, at every level. Hall of Fame football coach Jimmy Johnson’s house isn’t on the way to anything. Yet, his private sanctuary on the Florida Keys’ Islamorada islands is a popular destination to which college and professional coaches, general managers, and team owners regularly trek to seek advice—how to build a positive team culture, draft elite players, balance work and family life, and lead a team to win. Why? Because Jimmy Johnson has done it all—rising through the college coaching ranks to lead the University of Miami Hurricanes to a national championship, winning two consecutive Super Bowls with the Dallas Cowboys, and handling public triumphs while dealing with private adversity. Now, in Swagger , written with veteran sports journalist Dave Hyde, Johnson shares a candid account of his life experiences that have turned him into a legend in the coaching world. From his early days on the college football fields at Louisiana Tech to his arrival as the Cowboys’ coach in 1989, Swagger traces the history of Johnson’s career, and his lifelong mission to win. His larger-than-life personality and hard-driving, tough-talking coaching style led him to become one of only six coaches in NFL history to win back-to-back Super Bowls. Swagger shows the behind-the-scenes details of his professional conflict with Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and his personal revelations following his mother’s death and his son’s struggle with addiction. It reveals Johnson’s formula for winning, including his criteria for identifying talent, his core beliefs, how he replaced legendary coaches like Tom Landry and Don Shula, coached stars from a young Troy Aikman to an aging Dan Marino, and established the ever-elusive sense of “culture” that every team leader hopes to achieve. More than a highlight reel, Swagger reveals the hard-won lessons Jimmy Johnson has learned both as a man and as a coach through a lifetime dedicated to excellence. Read more
REVIEW
I am going to first state for the record… (And you will see why I feel that’s necessary… very soon… and throughout!)… That I’ve always liked Jimmy Johnson… THAT BEING SAID… Johnson’s book… is nothing but constant… BRAGGING… BOASTING… SELF-AGGRANDIZING… POMPASS… PRETENTIOUS… SELF-IMPORTANT… OVER-FLOWING-PILE-OF-CONCEIT… and in the thousands of books I have read in my life… nothing matches the braggadocio that spews from Johnson’s mouth! This ego trip… would earn him enough frequent flyer miles to go to Mars and back a million times! He makes Muhammad Ali… look like a whimpering… introvert… with no self-worth. Yet… I always liked Jimmy Johnson… He unflinchingly tells you he was the greatest college coach and greatest professional coach. He tries to convince you he was the first coach to figure out it would be helpful for a coach to scout players in person… he waxes poetic… that he was the absolute king of psychologically investigating and manipulating players of all ages… at all levels… he bellows that he was the one to figure out the need for an analytical profile of how to trade up and down for draft choices… and of course… yes… of course… to always come out ahead in such deals. He believes he’s the first coach to extend player’s street moxie and competitiveness… from the streets to the field… of course he wears… like a medal of honor that one of his Miami college teams and the Dallas Cowboys were voted two of the most hated teams of all-tine… Ad Nauseam… he repetitively… like a broken record… tells you over and over and over… that he’s G-d’s gift to gambling. He bets more than anyone… wins more than anyone… and has more guts than anyone… But… I “LIKED” Jimmy Johnson… He brags that he’s considered a “WHALE” in gambling terms… every casino wants him in… and gives him anything he wants… he even mocks the fact that Shaquille O’Neal is envious… because Johnson can get into an exclusive casino… and “SHAQ” can’t because “SHAQ” doesn’t bet enough. WHALE… WHALE… WHALE… if you’re planning on reading this book… you may as well get used to that word now! In the years since retiring from coaching… (And as these references pile up… I literally started getting nauseous… from the amount of real or imagined self-love… bloated… blusterous… praying to the blessing of being able to bow down to the G-d of all G-d’s he gets to see every time he looks in the mirror!)… And here it comes… according to Jimmy… literally every single coach… from the highest of high… Belichick… on down… literally wear out the highways… roads… and bridges… that lead to his Florida home… for moments of wisdom… and questions of coaching life… that the honored guests… thrust upon the guru of all football guru’s. The author doesn’t state the following in the book… but the reader by this point could most likely surmise that Johnson has dreams… AND WAKING VISIONS… of the ghosts of Lombardi… Halas… Rockne… Lambeau… and other legendary departed coaches… all waiting at his gate for permission to come in… and receive gold-sparkling-diamond-encrusted… words of wisdom… from the exalted-in-his-own-mind… Jimmy Johnson… And I liked Jimmy Johnson… He also likes to brag about throwing down a $5,000.00 chip in front of an assistant coach at the blackjack table… and tells him if he wins that hand he and another assistant coach can keep it and split it… he brags about winning so much in the Bahamas that he and Aikman had the casino open a disco just for them… I’m really surprised he didn’t state that he taught Einstein how to add mixed numbers… I guess that will be in the sequel. But I liked Jimmy Johnson… Last but not least… what the holy hell… is with the picture on the cover of this book?!?! His agent and the publisher must have told him the picture was for the cover of ***MAD-DOGGING-MAGAZINE-MONTHLY***… instead of a biographical book. Ooooh…. Is that picture supposed to scare anyone that went to Florida State or University of Florida???
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