Home, fresh from the kill. The kill occurred from five feet, a bullet through a young man from China who had appeared to be dead, then suddenly stirred and lifted his gun toward an American medic. Buddy Ryan's finger twitched, and then there was blood coming from the young man's groin, where the bullet went in, and from his side, where the bullet came out, blood puddling almost at Buddy's shoes. But honestly, it wasn't so bad. He has told his family a dozen times already: It didn't bother him. Didn't bother him. This is an article from the July 1. Original Layout. Sure, says Buddy. Picture the four brothers lashing the rope around the four Cottonwood trees, no one needing to speak; it will go as it always went. The youngest brother, George, will enter the ring first and be beaten by the second- youngest, D. A. Which will bring Buddy, the oldest, inside the ropes, and from the look in his eyes, no one doubts that he will make shorter work of Pat than ever before. Hold their guy back, so our guy could hit him. WATERS: Told us which guy on the other team didn't like to stick his head in the fire. Told us to kill that guy. CARDINAL SETH JOYNER: Told us never to break up a fight in camp. EX- BEAR DAVE DUERSON: Told us that if a quarterback scrambles, you go for his knees. PLANK: Told us that when one of us made an interception, the other 1. It was comical on film! You'd see the quarterback get hit, go down, get up, get hit, go down, get up, get hit. Before Buddy was stripped of his corporal's stripes for taking a lieutenant who burst into the barracks barking wake- ups like a jackal and slamming him against a wall. Before Buddy arrived on the Korean front on Christmas Day 1. Parallel where enemy foot patrols roamed the night snow like ghosts, was sent out with no sleeping bag or rations that first night, just a shovel to dig a hole in the ice to crouch inside all night while the frost deadened his fingers and toes. Directed by Steve Miner. A teenage girl on vacation in the Bahamas with her divorced father tries to impress a potential boyfriend by saying that her father. Before that day when Buddy bumped into an enemy soldier in a blinding snowstorm, just the two of them squinting into each other's eyes, and Buddy pulled his trigger, only to hear the click because the clip on his carbine was not in place, and the Chinese soldier pulled his trigger, only to hear the click because his burp gun had frozen. Before Buddy was promoted from private to master sergeant and men began volunteering to go on patrol with him because he seemed so sure of himself when the earth around their bunker convulsed from the 1. Before Buddy walked into bars in Japan, finished his first beer in one swallow, slapped the glass upside down on the counter and left it there, informing anyone who asked its significance: . Before Buddy was a man. His father's 5. 8 and looks 7. He has already had the first heart attack, the one that made him stop drinking, but if he's fool enough to come inside that rope now, lord help him, because. Lord help him, he's coming, the 5. It was only beginning. ELTON JOHN: Buddy Ryan. The pig on two legs. BUDDY'S WIFE JOANIE: Such an easy man to live with. Always so considerate of me. He's my best friend. CARDINAL FAN DAN GRIMES: We've got another Hitler. EX- BEAR MIKE SINGLETARY: We were like little kids, and Buddy was our father. EX- BEAR PERSONNEL DIRECTOR BILL TOBIN: The most self- centered man I've ever met in the NFL. LATE EAGLE JEROME BROWN: I'd sell my body for Buddy. SPORTSWRITER MIKE RABUN: Had he control over long- range missiles, the earth would have long been vaporized. EX- VIKING AHMAD RASHAD: You know, there's something going on here people don't see. How could a man who publicly looks like such an ass have so many players who love him to the dying end? Spring 1. 99. 4. Cardinal season- ticket sales have nearly doubled. The Pro Bowl punter has been cut, the '9. Pro Bowlers have been signed as free agents. Two of Buddy Ryan's sons, Rob and Rex, have been named assistant coaches. The Shawshank Redemption (1994) Quotes on IMDb: Memorable quotes and exchanges from movies, TV series and more. This is a list of the 100 best romantic movies of all time, voted for by over 100 romantic film experts. Joel, I just ran across your website from a link on The Art of Audacity. I have a similar list of my own and I’m inspired to post it on my blog. Right now I’m saving up to quit my job and travel the world. To my darling husband who died in March 2008. This poem has helped me to express my feelings to all who are going through the same situation as myself. All in green went my love riding on a great horse of gold into the silver dawn. Fleeter be they than dappled dreams the swift sweet deer the red rare deer. Shine Jodi Picoult tackles issues of race and privilege in Shine. It's a prequel to her upcoming novel Small Great Things, and introduces readers to the unforgettable Ruth Brooks. Today is Ruth’s first day of third grade at. Defensive lineman Eric Swann has taken swings at teammates on each day of a three- day minicamp. Brian Henesey, a kid two years out of Bucknell, working at a pharmaceutical company, has traveled cross- country on a friend's frequent- flier mileage, arrived at the Cardinal training- complex parking lot at dawn to await an audience with Buddy Ryan, vowed to him, . Already. Phoenix mayor Paul Johnson, politely asking what Buddy's focus is, has been told, . Sales of the black hat Buddy wears have begun to multiply, Arizonans mimicking the man who caused fans in Philadelphia to form opposing Buddy Backers and Buddy Bashers clubs and an opposing wide receiver to celebrate a playoff touchdown by firing the football, point- blank, at a larger- than- life caricature of Buddy's face. Soon Buddy Ryan's first season as head coach and general manager of the Arizona Cardinals will begin. PLANK: It was like Leave It to Beaver at the guy's house. Ward Cleaver sitting on the recliner smoking his pipe: ? What can I get for you? How about an iced tea? I had this feeling when I was with Buddy that I was back in college, in a locker room with guys whipping each other in the ass with towels. EX- BEAR GARY FENCIK: Ever see him with Joanie? Like a kid, all dressed up, doing everything just right, not saying boo. EX- EAGLE RON JAWORSKI: Everywhere I went after the Eagles, coaches asked me about him. Most of them hated his guts.
CARDINAL ASSISTANT COACH TED PLUMB: People live through Buddy. They wish they could do and say the things he does. EX- JET ASSISTANT SAM RUTIGLIANO: The man has been on a stage since he got that defense going in Chicago. He wants to be a character. Nobody could prepare the things he says. He's having fun and doesn't care if milk goes up to three bucks a quart. PATRIOT COACH BILL PARCELLS: Buddy Ryan is a Neanderthal, and he attracts Neanderthal players. BUDDY'S SON JIM: If you could see how high he kicked his legs to Hava Nagila in our wedding video. Waking up next to a Phi Beta Kappa in a rented house with a rotted floor. Waking up a couple of dozen miles of red clay south of the little Oklahoma town where he grew up in a house without indoor plumbing. She has saved him, really. People back in Frederick figured he would end up working in a gas station. When he married Doris Ward midway through his junior year at Oklahoma A& M, he had only one credit toward his major. Buddy Ryan, Academic All- America football team! As a kid he was the kind who made you feel easy if you were his friend heading with him into the night and jittery if you were a third baseman and he was dancing off second. Once, he threw a cross- body block at Altus High's star, busting both a double play and the guy's collarbone, and responded to the crowd's grumbles with a digit and a streak of obscenities that nearly set off a riot. Now he's 2. 8, about to be introduced at Gainesville High's assembly as the new football coach and athletic director after two years there as an assistant. He knows exactly where he's going. During the off- season at Oklahoma A& M, before reporting for the all- night shift in the oil fields wearing a rubber suit to cut weight, he has sat at basketball practices studying the legendary coach Hank Iba. My father had just had a stroke, was incapacitated in a wheelchair, and I was a 1. Gainesville High with no money for college, no self- confidence, no idea who I was. JIM CAMPBELL: I was principal there. Halfway through the year we realized Buddy had spent the entire athletic budget on football. Left nothing for baseball. Nothing for a track team that won the state meet in 4. A that year. I called him to my office. EX- WIFE DORIS: He was always such fun. A war vet, a football player, always so sure of himself. FRIEND CURLY RIDDLE: She was a brain. Every third word he wrote was misspelled. We couldn't figure out what they had in common. SULLIVANT: Oh, the ways he brought the toughness out of us. He walked up to me one day and said, . Me and you are gonna go find out. We got into our stances. He knocked me back so hard, I kissed the moon. One tenth of our paycheck went to the Baptist church. CAMPBELL: I confronted him on the budget. He didn't know that the track coach who had no funds left was the friend of the superintendent. SULLIVANT: I got two teeth knocked out in practice one day. I'm bleeding, thinking, This is bad. He sticks a wad of cotton in my mouth and tells me I'm fine. A few minutes later he says, . Buddy starts calling out numbers, and they take turns coming at me from all sides, and I have to keep getting up, dropping into my stance and fighting them off. Finally one of them throws an elbow at me, and I've already lost the two teeth and I'm mad, and I hit the kid in the eye. That's all Buddy wanted to know about me. DORIS: A hymn could do it. Sometimes he'd cry in church. CAMPBELL: Helluva coach, but he was fired after that one year of being in charge. Players went on strike for him, missed four days of spring practice, until I talked them out of it. SULLIVANT: Buddy called all over the country, sent film everywhere. Got scholarships for 1. Because he cared so much, I got a scholarship. Became a lawyer and a district judge. He changed the course of lives. Somebody will bless him for that. Early Sixties. University of Buffalo. Striding across the floor of a small dance studio in Clark Gym, the new assistant coach. Steeeeek 'em! A room with barres lining the walls so ballerinas can stretch. Keeeeel 'em! Mirrors on all four sides so they can watch themselves perform pirouettes and grands jet. NCAA rules forbid winter practice. Get up, worm! The Seminar, Buddy calls it. Grrrrhuhuhohhhhh! See him unnerving the other assistant coaches with those seven- day weeks and 1. With those defensive- line meetings he sometimes holds in the shower room, those cowboys hats that a roster full of New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania kids begin to wear in his honor as the Buffalo defense becomes one of the country's 1. See Doris propped against a pillow in the maternity ward. She's wondering when Buddy will call the football office from his recruiting trip and discover that three days ago she gave birth to twins.
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