I never coached a national college champion. I never built a Super Bowl winner or feuded with my team’s owner in a way that still resonates. But I wrote a book as if I did.
Former Dolphins and UM coach Jimmy Johnson talked to me. I typed like him. It’s an odd form of literary ventriloquism called “ghostwriting,” where he spoke about the heights of winning it all and the depths of a father’s raw tears, and I tried to capture that voice in all its variations.
“SWAGGER,’’ the book is called, and go ahead, judge it by the cover in capital letters and Jimmy’s football face with three championship rings on his hands. That’s him.
