"Then Zorn Said to Largent..."
The Best Seattle Seahawks Stories Ever Told
by Paul Moyer & Dave Wyman with Chris Cluff
Overview
From the Publisher
Here is your chance to go inside the huddle, head into the locker room, or grab a seat on the sidelines. This is your exclusive pass to get on the team plane or have breakfast at the team hotel. Go behind the scenes and peek into the private world of the players, coaches, and decision makers and eavesdrop on their conversations.
My thoughts
Well! Finally a juicy Seahawks book! Moyer and Wyman, two former Seahawks players, spilled the dirt on a lot of their teammates!
Whenever a new Seahawks book is published, we get little tidbits of behind-the-scenes conversations, pranks, tales, game day events, etc. Most of the time we don't really hear anything new but this time ... well, there were a lot of surprises in store with this book! Some good, some tragic, some eye popping!
I think the descriptions of players are written with a sense of humor that I hope the players themselves will laugh about as they read the book, but I'm not entirely sure, for instance, the description of Dave Krieg as "like a girlfriend who wants constant affection and praise." I laughed when I read it - I hope Dave Krieg laughs at it as well!
It's an easy read, quite enjoyable if you're a Seahawks fan and particularly if you followed them through the late 70s and 80s. If there is any exception I take to the book it's that the authors give the Nordstroms the credit for running a classy, well-managed and highly-respected team, they give the Behrings all the fault for running the team into the ground, playing favorites, losing respectability, and for alienating fans, and yet the credit for restoring the team to respectable levels seems to go to Coach Holmgren rather than Paul Allen. Allen gets very little mention in the book, almost as an afterthought. I found that interesting and a little disappointing. otherwise I thought it was a great book!
Favorite Passage
John Elway revolutionized the game. He was a big guy who could run and throw the ball. He was like Dave Krieg in a Maserati. Same competitive attitude, always so driven, but his physical attributes were outstanding.
