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A Darker Shade Of Red
A adrenaline charged snapshot in time, based on true events. Prosser is a new college football recruit in the 1960s, and this is the story of his brutal, exciting, and shocking struggle to stay on the team and in one piece. Inspired by Lloyd Pye's own journey from redshirt to first team, anyone who has played or loved the game will be inspired by this emotional story.
308 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 2007
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About the author
Lloyd Pye
23 books33 followersBorn in 1946, Lloyd Pye is a native of Amite, Louisiana. He attended Tulane University in New Orleans, graduating in 1968 with a B.S. in Psychology. After graduation, he joined the U.S. Army to become a Military Intelligence (M.I.) agent.
For 20 years Lloyd wrote fiction and scripts while studying aspects of alternative knowledge. Especially intrigued by Hominoids—bigfoot, sasquatch, abominable snowman, yeti—he felt they were the Earth’s only indigenous bipedal primates, leaving fossilized skeletons anthropologists labeled “pre” humans rather than “advanced” Miocene apes. Lloyd felt nothing about them was human, “pre” or otherwise. From Australopithecines through Neanderthals, they were upright walking primates, with physiological traits of primates and none of humans.
Lloyd realized that if Hominoids were real, their ancestors were being passed off as “pre” humans and modern humans could not have evolved on Earth. But he had no idea where we DID come from or how we got here. Then, in 1990, he discovered the work of Zecharia Sitchin and found a “front end” to the research he’d been doing. He realized his own work provided a plausible “back end” to Mr. Sitchin’s controversial theories. He believed he could fuse the two bodies of work to produce a book that would establish a middle ground in evolutionary theory.
Mostly by word of mouth, “Everything You Know Is Wrong—Book One: Human Origins” has sold nearly 40,000 copies. On TV, Lloyd has been featured on The Learning Channel ("Mystery of the Skulls"); Animal Planet ("Animal X"); EXTRA (best UFO segment of the 1990’s); London’s "Richard and Judy Show" (British equivalent of Oprah Winfrey); four times on "Your Turn" with Kathy Fountain on Fox TV's Ch. 13 in Tampa, Florida; "Naturally N’Awlins" with Frank Davis on WWL-TV (CBS) in New Orleans; and WJTV in Jackson, Mississippi (also CBS). He has given over 200 lectures in the U.S. and around the world (Brazil, Egypt, Netherlands, England, Australia).
Lloyd is an articulate, consistently engaging guest on television, and on radio shows like Coast to Coast and Jeff Rense. From the beginning of this part of his career, his verbal skills combined with a natural gift for platform presentations to vault him from obscurity in late 1997 to being well-established in alternative knowledge circles by late 1998. That reputation brought him to the attention of a Texas couple that had recently acquired a normal human skull and one that looked as if it could fit inside the head of a prototype “Grey” alien. The couple asked Lloyd to take the unusual skull and have it scientifically evaluated.
Thinking he knew something about science and scientists, Lloyd estimated the testing could be completed in six months. And it might have been. However, he soon learned that scientists protect their paradigms with every bit of the ferocity displayed by religious zealots when supporting “divine” causes. It’s been over EIGHT YEARS since the Starchild skull was made public, yet final results of its testing cannot be initiated until 2009 or 2010. For those interested in what it’s taken to get to that point, please visit www.starchildproject.com and find two slide shows available as Flash downloads. Both give vivid photographic evidence to support the assumption that the Starchild may well have been a human-alien hybrid.
For 20 years Lloyd wrote fiction and scripts while studying aspects of alternative knowledge. Especially intrigued by Hominoids—bigfoot, sasquatch, abominable snowman, yeti—he felt they were the Earth’s only indigenous bipedal primates, leaving fossilized skeletons anthropologists labeled “pre” humans rather than “advanced” Miocene apes. Lloyd felt nothing about them was human, “pre” or otherwise. From Australopithecines through Neanderthals, they were upright walking primates, with physiological traits of primates and none of humans.
Lloyd realized that if Hominoids were real, their ancestors were being passed off as “pre” humans and modern humans could not have evolved on Earth. But he had no idea where we DID come from or how we got here. Then, in 1990, he discovered the work of Zecharia Sitchin and found a “front end” to the research he’d been doing. He realized his own work provided a plausible “back end” to Mr. Sitchin’s controversial theories. He believed he could fuse the two bodies of work to produce a book that would establish a middle ground in evolutionary theory.
Mostly by word of mouth, “Everything You Know Is Wrong—Book One: Human Origins” has sold nearly 40,000 copies. On TV, Lloyd has been featured on The Learning Channel ("Mystery of the Skulls"); Animal Planet ("Animal X"); EXTRA (best UFO segment of the 1990’s); London’s "Richard and Judy Show" (British equivalent of Oprah Winfrey); four times on "Your Turn" with Kathy Fountain on Fox TV's Ch. 13 in Tampa, Florida; "Naturally N’Awlins" with Frank Davis on WWL-TV (CBS) in New Orleans; and WJTV in Jackson, Mississippi (also CBS). He has given over 200 lectures in the U.S. and around the world (Brazil, Egypt, Netherlands, England, Australia).
Lloyd is an articulate, consistently engaging guest on television, and on radio shows like Coast to Coast and Jeff Rense. From the beginning of this part of his career, his verbal skills combined with a natural gift for platform presentations to vault him from obscurity in late 1997 to being well-established in alternative knowledge circles by late 1998. That reputation brought him to the attention of a Texas couple that had recently acquired a normal human skull and one that looked as if it could fit inside the head of a prototype “Grey” alien. The couple asked Lloyd to take the unusual skull and have it scientifically evaluated.
Thinking he knew something about science and scientists, Lloyd estimated the testing could be completed in six months. And it might have been. However, he soon learned that scientists protect their paradigms with every bit of the ferocity displayed by religious zealots when supporting “divine” causes. It’s been over EIGHT YEARS since the Starchild skull was made public, yet final results of its testing cannot be initiated until 2009 or 2010. For those interested in what it’s taken to get to that point, please visit www.starchildproject.com and find two slide shows available as Flash downloads. Both give vivid photographic evidence to support the assumption that the Starchild may well have been a human-alien hybrid.
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October 22, 2022
I'm going to go with 2 and 1/2 stars. This is supposedly a novelization that fictionalizes the author's (Pye) experience playing for Tulane University's football team in the 1960s. It is written from the point of view of a young man who was a player, got hurt, and is now team manager. Frankly, it reads more like non-fiction than a novel. It doesn't really have the structure of a novel. There are some interesting elements to the story. For example, Tulane was apparently a test team for the development of Gatorade, which is described here. It also talks about the weaker players, redshirts, being used as cannon fodder for the varsity, and I'm aware that this almost certainly happened with many programs.
I played high school football but not college, so I can't speak to the truthfulness of Pye's described experience. Quite a bit of the story felt a little off to me but I can't really be sure. In addition, I was really hoping for a football book where people played the actual game, but almost all of this was about practice and how players were treated. Only at the end do we have an actual game, and the drama level there was not terribly high.
Pye died in 2013. I found out only after reading this book that he was big into the paranormal, and that he spent much of his time in the 1990s and until his death promoting the idea of the "starchild," which is a skull that he believed was an alien-human hybrid, although scientists have indicated from DNA tests that it was purely human and probably suffered from hydrocephalus. Perhaps it shouldn't, but it makes me wonder a little about the veracity of his writing on the subject of football.
The most interesting part of the book to me was the epilogue, where Pye talks about such coaches as Knute Rockne and Bear Bryant, and how football changed across the 40s to the 60s under the influences of these men. I'd like to have seen more of that strictly nonfictional material.
I played high school football but not college, so I can't speak to the truthfulness of Pye's described experience. Quite a bit of the story felt a little off to me but I can't really be sure. In addition, I was really hoping for a football book where people played the actual game, but almost all of this was about practice and how players were treated. Only at the end do we have an actual game, and the drama level there was not terribly high.
Pye died in 2013. I found out only after reading this book that he was big into the paranormal, and that he spent much of his time in the 1990s and until his death promoting the idea of the "starchild," which is a skull that he believed was an alien-human hybrid, although scientists have indicated from DNA tests that it was purely human and probably suffered from hydrocephalus. Perhaps it shouldn't, but it makes me wonder a little about the veracity of his writing on the subject of football.
The most interesting part of the book to me was the epilogue, where Pye talks about such coaches as Knute Rockne and Bear Bryant, and how football changed across the 40s to the 60s under the influences of these men. I'd like to have seen more of that strictly nonfictional material.
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