John Ed

I like the book, but it wasnt until someone else pointed it out that i too noticed that John Ed can be a whiny beeyotch

My take is that at least 85 percent of what he wrote is utter bullshite. The guy takes actual events and dresses them up like Christmas trees.

John Ed, if you read this then please get over the USC game. The Trojans won - the Tigers lost. Find another reason to live.

ETA: John Ed, I'm really happy that you managed to get laid. So have most of us. But most of us don't talk about it or name names.

Interesting read, but I found myself not respecting the guy too much after finishing. He would go visit the girl at night, tell her he loved her, do her, and then not introduce her to his family during the day. This seemed to go on for some time. Finally her 12 or 13 year old son ran him off.

BigBoyTiger
Did you read the book?

Its not only about the 1979 LSU-USC games, it is really about all of his time at LSU, his family, High school and post LSU life.

I told him it would have been better to do a book on the 1979 LSU-USC game.

As I posted here before, go ask the USC players from 1979 what game they remember the most from that season and the LSU game will win out all the time.

Much of John's book is just sad, the love life should have likely been kept out of the book.

Had the work just covered the 1979 season, it still would have been sad. Talking of Coach Mac, Woodley and John's best friend, all having passed away since that season; there isn't much to be happy about.

I to read the book and found it very insightful. Having retired from an organization after 30 years and after 7 years of retirement, I have not set foot are missed the place at all, and while I was there I loved it. The winds of change always affect people in different ways you should always look toward the future and not dwell on the past. It was just a book, read it and move on.

I like the book but I don't think it's about LSU football. It's a memoir about a guy who lives up to the last line of Ball Four, paraphrasing, "all those years I thought I was holding the ball when in fact it was holding me."

By trying not to be a guy yammering about the old days, he ends up just as obsessed with the old days by trying not to talk about it. It consumes him. It's actually a book about not playing.

He's kinda chewed the flavor outta that gum. You got a good writing career pal, which is as likely as a good acting career. You're a LUCKY sumbitch. Now write a detective/porn novel for Christ's sake.

I read the book and met John Ed. I think he's gay.

OK flame away, but that was my impression of him is shared by many I have spoken to.

Tigger,

I read the book and found it hard to get through the guy and his emotions. He tangles a web that is very hard to get through. I mean, I understand he was upset to see such a huge part of his life gone, but all of us go through phases in life and we have to find a way to get through and move on...John Ed was not mentally strong enough to do that.