Where Can I Buy An Awesome Book About The Greatest Upset In College Football History?
Funny you should ask. We know of such a book and it’s available for purchase at many fine retail establishments. Here is everywhere (that we know of) that you can buy Appalachian State Silences the Big House: Behind the Greatest Upset in College Football History McFarland Publishing Amazon.com Paperback Amazon.com Kindle Target Barnes & Noble®…
Read MoreApp State Win Over Michigan 10 Year Anniversary Coverage Everywhere
This week we participated in the celebration of App State’s victory over Michigan in 2007. The10-year anniversary of the game received a lot of coverage including new anecdotes and some great old ones that you don’t mind hearing again. Today officially, is the 10 year anniversary of App State beating Michigan. Safe to say it’s…
Read MoreWhy Our Book Cover Showcases CoCo Hillary’s Big Day
The cover photo for Appalachian State Silences the Big House, taken by Kevin Cline, captures the heart and soul of the game. Coach Jerry Moore recruited CoCo Hillary from South Carolina’s Strom Thurmond High School, just down the road from Greenwood, where App State quarterback Armanti Edwards played at the same time. On September 1, 2007, CoCo…
Read More10-Year Anniversary Celebrations of App Beating Michigan Includes ESPN!
ESPN Gameday sent a crew to North Carolina on July 22, 2017 to interview several heroes from App’s historic upset for a feature on the 10-year anniversary of the 2007 victory in Michigan’s Big House. The tribute will air during ESPN Gameday’s coverage of App’s season opener vs. UGA on September 2, 2017. App State…
Read More10 years ago, App State was no cupcake
ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit calls them “cupcake games.” Lower division teams get paid to travel to college football’s meccas, where the hosts make a nice profit from an extra home game. Michigan, with more wins than any team in history, hosted the Appalachian State Mountaineers, from Boone, N.C., on September 1, 2007, in the first such…
Read MoreComing Summer 2017 from McFarland Publishing
No American sport combines the traditions, pageantry, and, like it or not, money, more than big-time college football. And no college football program epitomizes the sport more than Michigan and its Big House, a stadium holding 109,901 fervent Wolverine fans several Saturdays every fall. On the flip side is Appalachian State, a small school in…
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