Martyball!: The Life and Triumphs of Marty Schottenheimer, the Coach Who Really Did Win It All, by Marty Schottenheimer
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No coach in NFL history endured more playoff heartache than Marty Schottenheimer. Despite racking up two hundred regular-season victories, Marty never reached the Super Bowl during his coaching career. Martyball! , first published in 2012 and now in paperback for the first time, tells the story of a man who persevered through misfortune and agony that would have brought most men to their knees. But Marty never lost sight of why he fell in love with coaching: he wanted to teach and mold men through the game of football.Based on more than one hundred hours of interviews with Marty, his players, assistants, family, and friends, this book will give readers a look into the mind of an exceptional coach and explain why he never gave up or succumbed to self-pity despite a long streak of bad luck. Get the background on Schottenheimer’s life, from his childhood in rural Pennsylvania to his playing and coaching careers in pro football, and learn why he kept believing in the game he loved—and how he found valuable lessons about life and football beyond each and every loss.Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports—books about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team.Whether you are a New York Yankees fan or hail from Red Sox nation; whether you are a die-hard Green Bay Packers or Dallas Cowboys fan; whether you root for the Kentucky Wildcats, Louisville Cardinals, UCLA Bruins, or Kansas Jayhawks; whether you route for the Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, or Los Angeles Kings; we have a book for you. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Martyball!: The Life and Triumphs of Marty Schottenheimer, the Coach Who Really Did Win It All, by Marty Schottenheimer- Amazon Sales Rank: #1631806 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-27
- Original language: English
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- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .90" w x 6.00" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 320 pages
About the Author Marty Schottenheimer was one of the most successful NFL coaches of all time, having posted a 200-126-1 record while coaching the Cleveland Browns, Kansas City Chiefs, Washington Redskins, and San Diego Chargers in over twenty-one seasons as a head coach. He won AFC Coach of the Year honors three times. Marty, a linebacker, also played six seasons of professional football and was a member of the Bills’ 1965 AFL championship team. He and his wife, Pat, reside in North Carolina. Jeffrey Flanagan has been an award-winning newspaper journalist for over twenty-five years, working at publications such as the Kansas City Star, Arizona Republic, and Decatur Herald & Review. Flanagan currently works for MLB.com covering the Kansas City Royals. Past books include Lau’s Laws on Hitting, The Shame of Me, and A Sea of Red. Flanagan lives in Kansas City, Missouri.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Martyball By Frank I will state right out front I am biased when it comes to Marty Schottenheimer. He is my all time favorite coach. This book is an excellent book, a great read and inspiration. It gives you insight into the man not only in football but in his family and personal life. It takes you through his playing career and coaching career. It goes in depth about the Cleveland, Kansas City, Washington and San Diego years. You learn about the honesty, honor and integrity of the man. You learn about his relationship with owners, General Managers and players. You learn what Martyball really is and always was and remove the misconceptions of what it was. You learn about the man that always put team and organization first. The man that never complained or made excuses for the loses or near misses. The man who never pinned the lose of a game on the player who may have fumbled or missed a field goal. He won as a team and lost as a team. When you stop and think of it were any of the teams better off when Marty was let go or left? Where the Browns, Kansas City, Washington or San Diego? It is remarkable how Marty took woeful teams and resurrected them. His achievements in Cleveland, Kansas City and San Diego are remarkable. In Washington amazing in one year. Going 8 - 3 in the last eleven games of the season.Marty left Kansas City in 1998. They complain that Marty only won three of ten playoff games. Well since Marty left Kansas City has been in a total of 3 playoff games winning none and Dick Vermeil was there for four of those years taking the Chiefs to one playoff game. Marty left Cleveland in 1988 having been to two AFC Championships and six playoff games winning two. Since Marty left Cleveland they have been to five playoff games winning 2 and Bill Belicheck was there for four years. We know what has happen post Marty to date in Washington and San Diego. Each one of the teams Marty coached would love to have those Marty years back. The years of winning football, hard nosed, hard playing teams.Marty never complains about not making it to the Super Bowl or puts blame or points fingers. He doesn't feel sorry for himself or think less of himself. This book is truly inspirational. I was always hooked on Martyball and now more than ever. Since being let go from San Diego I was like a kid waiting for Santa Claus each year to come back waiting for one NFL team to have the sense to bring back Martyball or as it really is, winning ball!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Good Read! By Rob Bittick I read this book because I am a San Diego Charger fan (since 1969), and I also like Marty Schottenheimer as a NFL head coach. This book goes into his life and career in the NFL. I found the book easy to read and very informative, especially the sections dealing with his time as the Head Coach of the Chargers. This book goes into his character, and his philosophy of coaching, too. For example, he went 14-2 in his last regular season with the Chargers, only to get fired by the owner. He handled the situation with class.Also, my family and I met him once after a Charger summer practice. He was very tired, one could see it in his eyes, but he still took time to meet us and chat a bit. He knew where his priorities were, and meeting Charger fans was a top priority for him at that moment.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Martyball! The Virginia Beach Destroyers Champion (2011-12) Coach Bio... By Rich The Reviewer From Marty's rural upbringing in a blue collar family in western penn-sylvania, to his rise in the Pro Football playing ranks of the AmericanFootball league (AFL) 1965 Champion Buffalo Bills, Boston Patriots, Pi-ttsburgh Stealers (some pun intended!) & World Football league Port-land Storm, to a Pro Coaching career that spanned 22.5 seasons.Marty Schottenheimer graduated from Pittsburgh University with anEnglish degree. There is even a chapter on the 2011 UFL season whenMarty lead our Virginia Beach Destroyers to the Championship at theVirginia Beach Sports Plex. On my own talks with Coach Marty during the2011 calender year and Destroyers first season, here are some of my ownobservations, interspersed with what is in the book: Alternate Pro Leagues -WFL, 1974 - Marty told me in the presence of his lovely wife of 44 years, Pat,that he originally signed with the Storm as a LB but a shoulder injury turned himinto a Coach!In 1975 he was hired as LB coach of the New Jersey G-Men (NY Giants). He toldme several funny stories of his scouting reports of the WFL players that got himhired by the Giants. He then left for the Clev. Browns in the late 70's and tookover as H. Coach midway through the 1984 NFL season.AFL, 1965-69 - Marty played LB/STs for the last five years of the American Footballleague's existence before it merged with the NFL as the American Football Conf-erence (AFC, where he coached three NFL teams: Chargers, Chiefs, Browns).UFL,2011-12, Champion Virginia Beach Destroyers. I first met Marty at the Wednesday,March 23rd, 2011 Press Conference in the cramped meeting room of McCormick &Schmick's seafood and steak restaurant in the swanky, upscale Town Centre area ofVirginia Beach, Va. The UFL Commish was there as were (then) several team offici-als. Marty called on me twice when we members of the local Pro Football coveringsports members of the press had questions. Mary's best quote that day, and I'll neverforget it was: "Marty Schottenheimer is here in Virginia Beach to do one thing; win theUFL Championship." And win it they did on Saturday, October 21st, 2011. And I have at-shirt to prove it.More during the 2011 UFL season; post game press conferences [One big reason for theDestroyers winning the UFL title in '11 was the fact that after the season's opening delayof one month, the team roared out of the gate winning it's first three games; the Virginiateam was basically the merger of the troubled leagues Hartford & Florida teams]; Marty,along with QB Chris Greisen, RB Dominic Rhodes and local former Packer/G-Men DBAaron Rouse were a joy to talk to after the games, all four home wins.Oct. 21st, 2011 - "The Championship" Day. As I arrived early for the game, our of the officeearly as to be there for my press pass, pregame meal, et, al, I strolled into the players, coaches,reporters, team officials, et, al entrance and noticed Marty entering with whom I thought mustbe his longtime wife. I said to him, Coach, can I get a picture; of course he pleasantly smiled,then intorduced me to his wife, "Pat, this is Rich Salzer of Sirius Radio.." Wow! I couldn't believehe remembered my name!All year long he and I got along well; contrast that to the jerks from my former Virginian-Pilot,Norfolk, Va paper, colleagues (except for the very fine Paul White, now of the Hampton DailyPress), who ridiculed the team, league all season(s, '11-'12) long, especially Tom Robinson.I reminded the very relaxed Coach Marty S., of what he said back @ McCormick & Schmick'son Wed., Mar., 23rd. He laughed and said, "tonight is what I came back for." After the Destroy-ers convincing 17-3 win over Coach Jim Fassel and the two-time defending Champion LasVegas Locos, a relieved looking Marty Schottenheimer handed me a game ball and I told him,"Congratulations, Coach - long over due [winning a Championship]." "Thanks, Rich.", he told me.In 2012, it all fell apart for Coach Marty, our UFL defending Champion Destroyers and the UFL;Marty left the team four days before the season opener, for what the UFL sited then was "per-sonal" reasons. Earlier in 2012, Sacramento Coach Dennis Green, the ex-Arizona / MinnesotaNFL coach resigned and filed a law suit for breach of contract on over one year overdue coach-ing back pay. It came out later in California court that Marty did the same; he was owed over $1/-Mil.(!) in back pay. His brother, Kurt, 62, a former college QB like myself (I'm 51 now), took over theteam for $1 for the 2012 season, his first Pro H.Coaching job, after 20 yrs., as a former NFL Ast.C.2012...& beyond...The UFL's "fourth" season [2009 lasted 4 teams seven weeks through the Cham-pionship; 2010's 5 teams lasted nine weeks through the Championship; 2011 only six weeks...] lastedonly five weeks; four games plus a bye week for the four teams. Virginia finally lost their only homegame in their season-and-a-half in the UFL, 20-17. As I road down the elevator at the Virginia BeachSports Plex, with a highly eniebreated (SP?) Sacramento owner Paul Pelosi (and his hot daughter), Isensed that this night might be the final curtain call for the Ugly Little Football League. I handed Pelosia business card. He glanced at my ArenaBowl ring and stuffed the card into his pocket. He missed onthe try but got it into the pocket on the second attempt. The next day at the library when I wass puttingout my "Salzer's Sports Report" I-net version, I got a hotmail from Lee Leonard in Sacramento, with alink to the UFL site saying: "The UFL is canceling the rest of the 2012 season, and will continue nextspring (2013) withe 2nd half of it's schedule and will get back to fall pro football in the fal of 2013 withour fifth season."What ended up happening since is that Marty and 138 other coaches and players sued UFL founderBill Hambrecht in Las Vegas court. The jury ruled against Hambrecht and by June he was still yappingabout that "the UFL WAS NOT Dead", and they would return in the future...Fast forward to October2013. There is another UFL type league on the horizon; the National Spring Football League (NSFL).They claim they will be starting up in spring of 2014 with the Virginia Beach Stingrays, with a logo thatlooks very much like the old AIFA Florida Stingrays. And guess where they claim to play? Yep - TheVirginia Beach Sports plex! How I long for the good olde days of the UFL and Martyball! Pick Up OnIt!
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