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The Gobbler Country Football Playbook: Concepts and Purpose

If you’ve been reading my articles long enough, you’re aware that I am a full-fledged football geek of more than a half-century. This means that I have seen most everything from what I call the face-mask era. I’ve seen and studied offenses as diverse as the Wishbone to the Dallas Cowboys’ shotgun. Did you know that Joe Namath was an interception machine, and brutally inconsistent? How about the fact that Terry Bradshaw spent his first three seasons running in the ‘awful’ category. Did you know that Vince Lombardi’s offense was more finesse than brute force, and the Packer Sweep was run with both smallish halfbacks as well as big Jim Taylor?