If These Walls Could Talk: Michigan Football Stories from the Big House

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While games are won and lost on the field, it's in the locker room where stories are told, friendships are made, and memories are created during the best four years of any college player's life. Not only is Falk a walking encyclopedia on the universe of Michigan football tradition and history, he has helped to create part of the history that only the coaches and players experience. The stories are priceless and the friendships indelibly forged.

MICHIGAN INSIDER SHARES 40 YEARS OF STORIES
He outlasted Bo Schembechler and Lloyd Carr. Tom Brady took his counsel years ago and still follows his instructions today. Hundreds of players and coaches have played at the University of Michigan since 1974, the year that Schembechler hired Jon Falk to join the Wolverines football program as its equipment manager. In fact, Brady respects Falk so much that he wrote the foreword to Falk's If These Walls Could Talk. Falk, with co-author Dan Ewald, shares nearly 40 years of stories from inside The Big House. Wolverines fans know all the on-the-field exploits of their favorite players like Tshimanga Biakabutuka, Braylon Edwards, and Brian Griese, but they don't know the half of the story until they've read Falk's side of all the action. More information about If These Walls Could Talk is available on its official page.

If These Walls Could Talk
The Michigan Wolverines football team has had many legends who have played or coached over the years, but one of the most valuable members of the team is equipment manager Jon Falk. 

Falk was hired as the team’s equipment manager by Bo Schembechler in 1974 and has been one of the most trusted members of the staff for the past four decades. In his new book If These Walls Could Talk: Michigan Football Stories From Inside the Big House, written with Dan Ewald (foreword by Tom Brady), Falk shares countless stories from an insider’s perspective including:

• Bo Schembechler’s epic gridiron chess matches with Ohio State’s Woody Hayes
• Why a Michigan place-kicker was falsely accused of robbing a bank
• What lesson Tom Brady took from Falk and still uses today
• Why Falk took the shirt off of the back of a freshman during a game 
• The day Falk introduced freshman phenom Anthony Carter to All-American Ron Kramer

Falk has filled the role of cheerleader, historian, mentor, counselor, and friend. He’s big on tradition and somewhere along the way became a tradition himself. His unique ability to fulfill his duties while also making the effort to go beyond the realm of his job description has made him such a memorable and influential part of the Michigan football program.

If These Walls Could Talk will give fans a taste of what it’s like to be a part of Michigan’s storied history from a perspective unlike any other. Along the way, fans will learn about a man whose work-ethic and overall character has made a major impact on Michigan players and coaches for nearly four decades. Michigan fans will not want to be without this book.

About the Authors:
Jon Falk is the equipment manager for the University of Michigan football team. For nearly four decades he has embodied the team’s traditions and history as a living encyclopedia, mentor, and friend to players, coaches, and proud alumni.

Dan Ewald is a former newspaper writer and longtime public relations director for the Detroit Tigers. Now retired, he is the author of 12 books, including works with Sparky Anderson, Bo Schembechler, Al Kaline, George Kell, and Ron Kramer. He holds a B.A. and M.A. from Wayne State University.