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A Cowboy's Life |  | Authors: Bob Lilly, Kristine Clark, Foreword by Roger Staubach
Publisher: Triumph Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 763632
Media: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition
Pages: 256
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 1.2
ISBN: 1600781012
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.332092
EAN: 9781600781018
ASIN: 1600781012
Publication Date: September 10, 2008
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Product Description
Bob Lilly is Mr. Cowboy. The humble man from Throckmorton, Texas, often called "the greatest defensive tackle in NFL history," shares his life's journey for the first time in A Cowboy's Life. Lilly recounts his humble beginnings in Texas, being the first player ever drafted by the Dallas Cowboys in 1961, his induction into the Ring of Honor, and his passion for photography. It's all here: Lilly's innumerable successes, his injuries, the stories of what he did after he retired from the Cowboys, and what he is doing today. Well supplemented with many never-before-published photographs taken by Lilly himself, A Cowboy's Life is the real story of Mr. Cowboy, straight from the man who lived it all.
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 Great read for any Football fan... August 24, 2008
J. Young (Wa, USA)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I grew up watching the Cowboys play. I was just 3 years old when Bob started his professional career. In our house, Thanksgiving was a day of Cowboy Football!!!
Very enjoyable read!!! It is fun to learn about the game from an inside point-of-view.
From his humble beginning, through his amazing career, and post-football life.
Thanks Bob, for writing this book!!!
 Worth the Wait February 3, 2009
Steve Ryser (Lacey, WA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It was nearly 24 years after he played his last game for the Dallas Cowboys when the autobiography of Mr. Cowboy himself, Bob Lilly, was released. For fans of Cowboy history like me, this is good news. And the book does not disappoint.
Bob Lilly was a class individual as a player. He was a destructive force at defensive tackle and yet a very clean player of great sportsmanship. He was unselfish and team-oriented. He comes across the same way as an author- all class and very positive. The chapter "Battle Scars" of the various injuries he endured is particularly insightful of what he went through and the sacrifices he made.
My only complaints with the book are that several photos and a lot of the player anecdotes are lifted from Bob Lilly's fine book "Reflections." (this is only a bad thing if one already owns "Reflections"). Also at times the narrative is a bit generic and has the feel that it is coming from the co-author's research from other published sources rather than insights from Bob Lilly. And there are some factual errors. The Cowboys were never 2-4 in the 1970 season, and the Cowboys didn't lose the home game to the Giants in 1971.
In summary, this is a book I would highly recommend to any fan of Dallas Cowboys history. Of course, such a fan just knowing it was a book on Bob Lilly probably would snatch it up anyway without caring what anyone else who read the book thought of it as Bob Lilly is that large and respected a figure in Cowboy history.
A Cowboy's Life by Bob Lilly January 9, 2009
Di G. (Pittsburgh, PA)
My husband received this as a Christmas gift and has thoroughly enjoyed reading it. Even though he has lived in Steeler country all his life, he became a fan of the Cowboys in the early 1960s and has remained so all this time. It's a great read for a Cowboy's fan.
 Disappointed September 20, 2009
Gear (USA)
I had always thought that Mr. Cowboy should have a biography. From the beginning of the Cowboys in the 60s through the mid-seventies, Bob Lilly was an essential part of the franchise.
I was quite a bit disappointed when this came out. Almost all the photographs were lifted from Mr. Lilly's previous book "Reflections", and some of the text was lifted from other Cowboys biographies. Their should've been much more in action photos of Bob Lilly and in color too. It was almost as if he didn't have a lot of input into this book. Sad.
 Disappointing April 15, 2009
Wally
After reading several great sports books (particularly the fantastic "Quiet Strength - Tony Dungy"), this was a big disappointment. The "action" segments of the book are little more than tired play-by-play summaries of key Cowboy games, with only sporadic insights from Bob's perspective.
I picked up this book knowing very little about the person of Bob Lilly, and came away still knowing very little. It serves much more as a summary of the glory years of the Cowboys (with detailed descriptions about players and coaches) than it seems a book about Bob Lilly or even a player's background perspective on the game. I would have liked to hear more about Mr. Lilly's Christian and personal convictions alluded to throughout but never explained.
I can see the draw for nostalgic Cowboy fans, but for the average unbiased reader there are better choices. Take the first and last few chapters out and the book is essentially game after game of play-by-play narration and short biographies of Cowboy personnel with a few anecdotes from Mr. Lilly sprinkled throughout.
The brightest spot in the book comes at the end, "Battle Scars," an eye-opening perspective into what football players go through year after year for our entertainment on television. Unfortunately, it's too little, too late.
As a book about the glory years of the Cowboys, a 4/5 rating. As a book about Bob Lilly, I'm afraid my 2/5 stands firm.
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