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Controlled Violence: On the Field and in the Booth
Controlled Violence On the Field and in the Booth Author:Sam Huff, Kristine Setting Clark Sam Huff dragged himself from West Virginia s famed No. 9 coal-mining camp all the way to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. With strength and intensity forged in his humble beginnings, this coal miner s son played the game with a focused fury that few could match. It would lead him to the bright lights of New York City, the gridirons on which moder... more »n football was formed, and the annals of NFL history.
In Controlled Violence: On the Field and In the Booth, Huff recounts his journey from coal-country poverty to NFL superstardom. Drafted by the New York Giants in 1956, Huff immediately became a sensation. One of the first dominant middle linebackers in history, he led Gotham s G-Men to an NFL championship his first year and was catapulted into the national consciousness. He was the first NFL player to be featured on the cover of Time magazine, he was sent to Vietnam to meet the troops, and he was the subject of the famous 1960 television special The Violent World of Sam Huff. And all the while Huff s battles on the field raged with Jim Taylor, Alan Ameche, Jim Brown, and others.
Controlled Violence is a walk through the formative years of the modern game we all love today, from The Greatest Game Ever Played to the birth of the middle linebacker to the insights of greats such as Tom Landry and Vince Lombardi. But it s also the story of Huff s journey through a life in football, from his early West Virginia days to the heights of New York, from being traded to the Redskins by that jerk Allie Sherman to his life after football, and finding a new home in the announcer s booth, back with his old friend Sonny Jurgensen, spending his Sundays around the game that made him and that he helped make.« less