Come on out and meet Coach Gregg:

Wednesday, November 18–Barnes & Noble at the Village of Ashwaubenon , 2498 Oneida St., in Green Bay.

Thursday, November 19th–Boswell Book Company
2559 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee.
Visit http://boswell.indiebound.com/

Both events begin at 7pm.

Coach Gregg will only sign copies of Winning In the Trenches.  No individual photos.  No memorabilia please.

On Thursday, October 15, he’ll sign Winning In The Trenches at Cleveland’s Joseph-Beth Booksellers at Legacy Village,  24519 Cedar Road at 7pm.   For details, call (216) 691-7000

On Saturday, October 17, he will be in Cincinnati at the Books By the Banks book festival (http://booksbythebanks.org/) at the Duke Energy Center, downtown.  He will take part in a panel discussion at 11am and then sign books and meet fans until 2pm.

On Monday, October 19, he will sign at Books & Co.  at The Greene Shopping Center, 4453 Walnut Street, in Beaver Creek, just outside of Dayton at 7pm.   Call the store at 937-429-2169.

Just an FYI: Coach Gregg will only sign copies of Winning In The Trenches. No memorabilia and no photos please.

If you can’t make it to any of these appearances, you can hear Coach Gregg on the radio:

Tuesday, 10/13 at 3:30 pm EST, the Coach will be a guest on 1530 HOMER in Cincinnati with host Mo Egger.  http://www.1530homer.com/main.html

Thursday, 10/15 at 9:10 am EST on WMJI’s The Lanigan & Malone Morning Show.  http://www.wmji.com/pages/lanandmalone.html

Saturday, 10/17 between 6 & 7am, WVXU’s Cincinnati Edition will air an interview Coach Gregg did on The Front Row with Betsy Ross. http://www.wvxu.org/cincinnati.asp

On Wednesday, September 16, tune into Homer on 540 ESPN Milwaukee at 5:40pm CDT.

You can listen online at http://www.espnmilwaukee.com/shows/homer.php

On Friday, September 18, Coach Gregg will meet up with his former running back, Gary Ellerson, on THE BIG Show on SportsRadio 1250

http://www.sportsradio1250.com/The-Big-Show/300683

You can get your copy of Winning In the Trenches and meet Forrest Gregg:

Friday, September 18, 7 pm
Next Chapter Bookshop
10976 N. Port Washington Rd.
Mequon, WI  53092
(262) 241-6220

“Preparation for the first week of a new season is no different than any other week of the season.

The coaching staff watches films of the first opponent. Unless there was a coaching change, you might want to look back to the previous season’s last couple games. But if a new staff is in place, as is the case with the Broncos this year, Coach Lewis of the Bengals will probably watch some film on New England, Josh McDaniel’s previous team. With new offensive and defensive coordinators also, the Bengal staff will study past tendencies.

The next step is preparing a game plan–matching your team’s strengths against your opponent’s defense.

For the first week in particular, you want your team healthy for the game.  If need be, you hold a player out of practice to assure he can play on Sunday.

It’s a drastic change mentally, from that last preseason game to the initial game of the season. You want your players ready physically and mentally to a game that counts.

As we used to say, “You can’t win them all unless you win the first one.”

“I don’t go back to Canton every year. The last time I visited was ’07, my 30^th year.

It’s always a lot of fun visiting with old friends and teammates. That’s the first thing I do, look for teammates. I looked for Hornung, but he wasn’t there. Then I looked for Willie (Davis), he was there. And Jimmy Taylor was also there.

Then I looked for the guys I played against. I found Gino Marchetti. Gino and I talked for awhile. We talked about the old days and our health…that’s what’s important to us now.

I saw Anthony (Munoz) also. I had a chance to visit with him for a little while. It gives me a great deal of satisfaction knowing he was one of the players I helped draft and helped coach.

It’s a fun thing to do even though I don’t visit every summer. Just being in Canton brings back the memories of my induction day, and it makes me remember just what it meant when I received the phone call telling me that I’d been selected to the Hall of Fame.”

You can read it here:

http://www.theclevelandfan.com/article_detail.php?blgId=4914

Soon Coach Gregg and co-author Andrew O’Toole will post their thoughts on the game of football, discuss how the book came about, and you’ll find out what the Coach thinks of the current state of the game with a weekly round-up.

The next few months will allow you to meet Coach Gregg, too.  Check out our events page to see if he’s coming to a location near you.