Rose Bowl Dreams: A Memoir of Faith, Family, and Football
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (943 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B005Q62YD4 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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(Aug.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Every so often, the religious Jones interrupts the narrative just long enough so he can have a talk with God (who doesn't seem to be doing enough to help his team win), but never comes off as even remotely holier-than-thou. . Already obsessed with the Texas Longhorns, Jones attended the University of Texas in comparatively swinging Austin and imparts warm memories of those late, music-filled nights before getting down to football talk. All rights reserved. Jones, who runs a college football Web site and works for the Texas Educati
Rose Bowl Dreams reveals the growth and evolution of a college football fan with the humor and poignancy only personal experience could provide: kitchen table conversations with Panhandle football legend “Bulldog” Jones, good-byes to a mother who taught her son about unconditional love and unconditional fandom, the wise counsel of a psychiatrist father, the love of a beautiful woman, raising three boys, Mennonites singing, night games in Lubbock, a scrappy gamer of a quarterback, a man with a golden left arm, and finally, redemptively, a small boy from the south side of Houston named Vince. To millions, college football is the essence of life. In time I would come to believe that college football contained all of the joy, faith, pageantry, feeling, failure, and renewal that any person could hope for out of life. A narrative that is like no football book you’ve ever read, Rose Bowl Dreams reminds us all that the good life moves ever forward.. It taught me about patience and commitment, about enthusiasm and exasperation, about fatherhood and faith.Like Norman Maclean’s classic, A River Runs Through It, Rose Bowl Dreams is a memoir that transcends the limits of the sports genre to contemplate faith, love, grief and the challenges of fatherhood.Rose Bowl Dreams is the story of a family whose passion for college football begins at a small stadium in the remote Texas Panhandle and leads to college football’s mo
Football writing at its best Mary G. Longorio I jokingly tell my friends I am the product of a mixed marriage. My mother was a Texas Longhorns fan through and throughmy father bled crimson for the Arkansas Razorbacks. Saturday afternoons could be a raucous affair if the two teams were playing and my parents had not managed to get tickets to the game. The eight siblings. A grateful man can go home again Jeannette S. Cook Adam Jones writes from his heart about a family, a hometown, a state and a football team that he has loved his entire life, and he does it with candor, compassion and a whip smart sense of timing and humor. His is a life well lived and he has no difficulty knowing Who to thank, and while I am on that subject, we can all tha. For any college football fan, or anyone who has lost a mama Deborah Middleton I'm not a Texan, so while I am respectful of the UT traditions, that isn't why I loved this book. I loved it for how the author weaves the excitement of football into day to day life and clearly shows that while we Southerners might appear to be hard core about our football, what we are really hard core about is our family