Description
They are known as "cupcake games"--lower division teams get paid to travel to college football Meccas where the hosts make a nice profit from an extra game. On September 1, 2007, the University of Michigan Wolverines, with more wins than any team in history, hosted the Appalachian State Mountaineers from Boone, North Carolina, in the first such game at Michigan Stadium, the largest stadium in the country.
App State was no cupcake. Coach Jerry Moore, in the spirit of the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team and other memorable underdogs, assembled his team with two things in mind--speed and character--and conditioned them to the breaking point. "We're fixin' to shock 'em," he shouted at practice, in the locker room, at the dinner table. This book tells the inside story of Moore's legendary team and the Mountaineers' historic win.
Author: David J. Marmins, Steven K. Feit
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: 07/05/2017
Pages: 276
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781476664972
ISBN10: 1476664978
BISAC Categories:
- Sports & Recreation | Football
About the Author
David J. Marmins is a civil litigation partner at Atlanta's Arnall Golden Gregory, LLP. He was an award winning college newspaper editor and reporter and is the editor of the legal treatise, Georgia Nuisance Law. He lives in Smyrna, Georgia. Steven K. Feit was an award-winning college sportswriter, whose career in sports has consisted of public relations, merchandising, marketing, logistics, and game-day operations for a variety of clients and teams. He has served in the front office of the Harlem Globetrotters for the past decade. He lives in Duluth, Georgia.