false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171458248m/99952.jpg 99952 2 <P> Joe Ehrmann, a former NFL football star and volunteer coach for the Gilman high school football team, teaches his players the keys to successful defense: penetrate, pursue, punish, love. Love? A former captain of the Baltimore Colts and now an ordained minister, Ehrmann is serious about the game of football but even more serious about the purpose of life. <I>Season of Life</I> is his inspirational story as told by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jeffrey Marx, who was a ballboy for the Colts when he first met Ehrmann. <P> Ehrmann now devotes his life to teaching young men a whole new meaning of masculinity. He teaches the boys at Gilman the precepts of his Building Men for Others program: Being a man means emphasizing relationships and having a cause bigger than yourself. It means accepting responsibility and leading courageously. It means that empathy, integrity, and living a life of service to others are more important than points on a scoreboard. <P> Decades after he first met Ehrmann, Jeffrey Marx renewed their friendship and watched his childhood hero putting his principles into action. While chronicling a season with the Gilman Greyhounds, Marx witnessed the most extraordinary sports program he'd ever seen, where players say "I love you" to each other and coaches profess their love for their players. Off the field Marx sat with Ehrmann and absorbed life lessons that led him to reexamine his own unresolved relationship with his father. <P> <I>Season of Life </I>is a book about what it means to be a man of substance and impact. It is a moving story that will resonate with athletes, coaches, parents -- anyone struggling to make the right choices in life. 96365 24 8 2004 Season of Life: A Football Star, a Boy, a Journey to Manhood total:154|5:64|4:52|3:26|2:11|1:1| 154 629 194 63 4 0 false false Thu Mar 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 28 09:48:05 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 10:00:42 -0700 2009 Season of Life is a tale about an ex-NFL player and his impact in a sports writer's life. The author, Jeffery Marx, gets back in touch with an old friend from years ago. This friend, whom he met while working with the Baltimore Colts as a teen, goes by the name of Joe Ehrmann. Now a high school c...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 25 05:48:29 -0700 2009 Sun May 03 13:43:45 -0700 2009 Season of Life tells the true story of a high school football team's season, but more prevalent is the lessons on life and truly becoming a man told by the coaches of the team. Jeffrey Marx, a sports writer, follows a high school team coached by Joe Ehrmann - a former NFL player who Marx met as a b...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Dec 17 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 17 18:30:33 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 17 18:38:08 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 21 15:22:21 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 15:09:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 03 06:27:05 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 03 07:03:44 -0800 2008
This book starts hokey and it ends hok...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue May 27 12:19:16 -0700 2008 Tue May 27 12:19:16 -0700 2008 Season of Life, by Jeffrey Marx, is about ex-NFL player and current minister, speaker, workshop-leader, and part-time HS football coach Joe Ehrmann. Season of Life offers Marx's mini-biography of Joe Ehrmann, as well as an explication of Ehrmann's philosophy of 'strategic masculinity' and developing...more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Jun 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 06:07:47 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 06:07:47 -0700 2009 Season of Life. It's unpleasantly fawning in the manner of Three Cups of Tea, another b...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jan 23 12:58:07 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 23 12:59:29 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Feb 18 13:41:44 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 13:43:30 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Tue Sep 15 19:13:45 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 19:15:07 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Thu Jun 04 08:31:09 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 08:26:14 -0700 2009 Without taking away from this at all, there is a subtle bait and switch. The story begins with the "football star", but in reality he is only a disciple of another coach--the real hero of the book.]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999 Thu Jul 30 20:45:08 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 20:48:23 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 02 22:22:22 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 02 22:22:22 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Sun Mar 08 23:11:09 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 08 23:12:10 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 17 20:54:49 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 21 18:23:00 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Nov 24 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 23 13:02:30 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 27 15:19:20 -0800 2009
The attitudes of these fine coaches should be our every day way of life. ]]> 5 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 04:04:20 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 05:19:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Feb 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 20:19:29 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 20:20:41 -0800 2009 1 0 0 false false Mon Nov 02 13:52:11 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 13:53:46 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Apr 20 08:22:34 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 20 08:28:09 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=99952