num_pages: 212
description: This book was written from a tape recording that Plimpton did with former Packers and Colts center Bill Curry during a car ride up from Georgia to Green Bay, Wisconsin, where Curry was trying to make a comeback with the Packers. Curry played in the NFL from 1965 to 1974. It's a nice look back at that era of the NFL as Curry talks about coaches he played under and superstar players that he went up against. A good read for those interested in that period of NFL history. A rambling, dreamy book that captures the best parts of Paper Lion without Geo. Plimpton's more intrusive aesthete-in-the-woods asides. "Curious places, these football halls of fame. So little to put in them that gives a sense of the game. Dead men's voices...deflated footballs with the dates in white paint on them...old photographs...empty uniforms...ghostly places. The men just sucked out of those uniforms like vacuum cleaners had got to them."
language: English
title: One more July: A football dialogue with Bill Curry
titlecomplete: One more July: A football dialogue with Bill Curry
genres: Sports, Football, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 43
publisher: Harper & Row