Fred Wyant, who spent 19 of his 27 years in the NFL as a referee, gives the reader an inside the look at America's most popular sport. He lashes out at owners and coaches who allow players who perform on the field to abuse women, drugs and alcohol and break society's laws off the field. He asks: "Where are the role models today?"
He criticizes the greed of owners who want the public to finance their stadiums, discusses the pros and cons of instant replay, the influence television has on officials, names the calls in a game that officials miss most and why, criticizes TV announcers who do not know the rules and mislead their viewers and dileniates how an officiating team works and how each member of the seven-man crew is challenged with more than 1,500 decisions in a game.
The book is G-rated with no profanity and will appeal to children, women and sports fans of all ages.
Author Rene A. Henry blends Wyant's experiences with more than 75 interviews of sors leaders including Mike Ditka, Don Shula, the late Tom Landry, Lou Holtz, Marv Levy, Chuck Noll, Johnny Unitas, Peter Ueberroth, Sam Huff, Kellen Winslow, Sonny Jurgensen, Bart Star, owners Michael Brown and Dan Rooney and referees Jim Tunney and Red Cashion.
This is author Rene A. Henry's sixth book. Amazon is currently selling "You'd Better Have a Hose if You Want to Put Out the Fire," the definitive book on crisis management and communications, "Marketing Public Relations -- the hows that make it work!," "Bears Handbook -- Stories, Stats and Stuff About Baylor University Football," and "How to Profitably Buy and Sell Land."
The current chair of the College of Fellows of the Public Relations Society of America, he has had diverse careers in public relations, sports marketing and management, housing and construction, television and entertainment, politics, higher education, a trade association CEO and in government service.
He began his career as sports information director at West Virginia University when Wyant was the quarterback. His agency was the first in the U.S. to establish an international sports marketing division, he directed the global media campaign to bring the 1984 Olympic Games to Los Angeles and served as assistant to the president and on several committees of the U.S. Olympic Committee.
He has received numerous honors and awards for his works, is a member of both the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. He has judged the Primetime Emmy Awards 10 times.
He received his A.B. degree in economics from The College of William & Mary and did graduate work in marketing at West Virginia University.
