Flirtation With Falcons Focus of New Parcells Autobiography

Bill Parcells’ new autobiography will be filled with lots of intriguing tales of his Hall of Fame career, but it’s one paragraph in particular that’s drawing attention.

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A Bill Parcells autobiography is going to sell, as many fans will be interested in learning many stories behind the stories and moves that helped make Parcells a Hall of Fame coach and one of the NFL’s most iconic figures of the last 40 years. However, the upcoming book (co-written by Nunyo Demasio) has already gotten attention regarding his flirtation with becoming head coach of the Atlanta Falcons during the end of 2007.

The following paragraph explains it all:

"Parcells said he felt the contractual issue at the start of negotiations with (Falcons owner Arthur) Blank was ominous. He also disagreed with the owner’s philosophy of making Atlanta’s black fan base a factor in football decisions. African-Americans constituted more than half the metropolitan area’s population of five million, leading to the NFL’s largest such base. However, the main reason for Parcells’s inclnation to join Miami was his relationship with Huizenga."

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has already focused on the possibility of Parcells having a discomfort with Atlanta’s strong African-American fan base, when, in reality, Parcells simply leveraged Blank and the Falcons — who were in the midst of the Michael Vick fiasco and the disaster that resulted in bringing in Bobby Petrino to coach the franchise — in order to get a better deal out of the Dolphins, which is where he wanted to be in the first place.

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