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BALLS is the story of a college football coach, his rise, his fall, and his fallback position. You could say BALLS is the story of a coach's kick-off, his first, second, and third downs... and his punt. But BALLS is a coach's story that belongs to the coach's wife. To her, and to his mother, his mother-in-law, his daughter, his assistants'wives, his players'mothers and girlfriends, and even his players'grandmothers. It's the women standing behind this handsome football hero who tell the story behind the headlines of Mac Gibbs, Birmingham University coach Catfish Bomar's star quarterback, who married Dixie Carraway, the beautiful homecoming queen. Set in Alabama, home state of the legendary Paul'Bear'Bryant, BALLS is told by fifteen women and one little girl touched by Mac Gibbs's fall from fame as a college quarterback to infamy as head coach of the Birmingham University Black Bears. It's told in those women's voices, from their seats in the stands. They watch the other women, worry when players are slow to get up off the ground, pray when players are carried off on stretchers. They don't care much for the'science'of the game--or its brutality. They see football as it really is--se

Author

Nanci Kincaid

Publisher

Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9781565121782

Subjects

Romance, Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.73 / 5 (147 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14