I am a big fan of iconic Buffalo Bills head coach Marv Levy’s Where Else Would You Rather Be?, his textbook length autobiography. It checks in at 414 pages and is written in nine or ten point font. It doesn’t fit into handbags. It is awfully difficult to read on a train. Given that Levy has a Master’s degree in English from Harvard, its size and font is quite fitting. Levy tells the reader everything you might ever want to know about his life and career in incredible detail. And now it looks like Levy is taking that attention to detail to another literary venture.
On Tuesday, Rochester’s NBC affiliate reported that Levy will soon be releasing his first novel, entitled Between the Lies
Levy definitely followed the old writer adage, “Write what you know,” because the quarterback of one of the novel’s two key teams has a pretty familiar name:
“And there’s a quarterback named “Kelly James,” who Levy acknowledges resembles his former Bills star, Jim Kelly.”
Is there nothing this octogenarian can’t do? (Okay non-Bills fans, insert snarky “Win Super Bowls, haha!” comment here.) The man just turned 86 years old, and he’s releasing a novel. I hope I am as active as he is when I’m that old.