The King of Halloween and Miss Firecracker Queen: A Daughter's Tale of Family and Football

By Lori Leachman

The King of Halloween and Miss Firecracker Queen tells the story of a football life from a daughter’s perspective. It provides a look under the hood, so to speak, of one family’s rise through the ranks of competitive football- from high school to college to professional coaching, and ultimately Super Bowl champion. It also chronicles their struggle to deal with the decline and death of the patriarch from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) as a result of that life. It is a story of one family’s love of a game and each other, and of one man’s strength of character, and one woman’s love that sustained him.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
• Release date: Mar 30, 2018
• ISBN: 9781683503170

Lori Leachman

Lori Leachman is a professor of economics at Duke University. She has published over twenty articles in a variety of academic journals, and has presented her work at a variety of professional conferences such as the American Economic Association Meetings, the Southern Economic Association Meetings, the Conference on Global Finance, and the Napa Valley Seminar. She has been interviewed on NPR and The State of Things. She has been in Who’s Who of America’s Teachers, won the 1995 Student Award for Teaching Excellence at Northern Arizona’s College of Business, and won the Howard D. Johnson Teaching Award at Duke University in 2002/3. She is daughter of a football coach, and a Southerner by birth. She resides in Durham, NC.