The King of Halloween & Miss Firecracker Queen: A Daughter's Tale of Family and Football

Lori Leachman

mar 2018 · Morgan James Publishing

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In this memoir of a Southern childhood, football is a family’s salvation—and its destruction.
 
The King of Halloween & Miss Firecracker Queen tells the story of a football life from a daughter’s perspective. Chronicling a rise through the competitive ranks—from high school to college to professional coaching, and ultimately a Super Bowl championship—it also reveals the struggle to deal with the decline and death of the patriarch, Lamar Leachman, from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) as a result of that life.
 
With forewords by NFL legends Phil Simms and Harry Carson, this is a true story of one family’s love for a game and for each other, one man’s strength of character, one woman’s love that sustained him.
 

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Lori Leachman is a professor of economics at Duke University. She has published over twenty articles in a variety of academic journals, and has presented her work at a variety of professional conferences such as the American Economic Association Meetings, the Southern Economic Association Meetings, the Conference on Global Finance, and the Napa Valley Seminar. She has been interviewed on NPR and The State of Things. She has been in Who’s Who of America’s Teachers, won the 1995 Student Award for Teaching Excellence at Northern Arizona’s College of Business, and won the Howard D. Johnson Teaching Award at Duke University in 2002/3. She is daughter of a football coach, and a Southerner by birth. She resides in Durham, NC.