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It's 1981 and the Iowa Hawkeyes are struggling for football respectability after decades of losing. Coach Hayden Fry needs a talented quarterback to right the ship. Unexpectedly, he signs a lightly recruited QB from run-dominated Wheaton (Illinois) North High and proclaims him ""destined for greatness"" before even taking a snap. After getting bruised, battered and benched in a 42-7 drubbing by Nebraska in his first start, Chuck Long proves his coach prophetic by throwing for more yards than any other quarterback in Big Ten history, finishing runner-up for the Heisman to a kid named Bo and hearing his name called as the 12th overall pick in the '86 NFL Draft. And that's just for starters. Sound too good to be true? Not if your destined for greatness.

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Even if you'd never heard of Chuck Long, this book is a pure delight. What a magic person he is and what an outstanding, fascinating career and experience he's had. This book is inspiring, uplifting and fun. Aaron Putze nailed it! --Van Harden, WHO Radio Chuck Long arrived in Iowa in the early 1980s just as the brutal Farm Crisis did. And the University of Iowa 'Football Crisis, ' as we might call it, had been raging for 19 years. Young Chuck, colorful Coach Hayden Fry and the rest of the Iowa Hawkeyes gave us victories, bowl games, No. 1 national rankings and most important of all, hope, right when the whole state needed it. We're way overdue in telling and celebrating that story. Thanks to writer Aaron Putze for doing it - and doing it so well. - Chuck Offenburger, Iowa writer and former Des Moines Register Iowa Boy Columnist

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