"I enjoyed it -- a great read. I was an old-time fan of the AAFC,
and Mike D'Emilio captured it perfectly. Both on a football level
and on a fiction level, this book gave me many happy moments."

-- Paul Zimmerman, Sports Illustrated



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"Love makes fools of us all."   -- William Shakespeare