There are lawyers who long to write a book that isn't a treatise on the law.

David Marmins of Arnall Golden Gregory recently fulfilled that dream, with co-writer Steven Feit: “Appalachian State Silences the Big House” recounts the stunning upset by the Appalachian State University football team over the University of Michigan Wolverines in 2007. The book was published last month by McFarland.

Marmins and Feit, who works in sports public relations, are friends from their days as sports editors of The Emory Wheel college newspaper. They clearly know football, detailing the practices, tactics and strategy Appalachian State employed in defeating football powerhouse Michigan in September 2007. One method of preparation was playing Michigan's fight song, “The Victors,” loudly during practices to immunize players to the noise of Michigan's 109,000-seat stadium—known, as the title indicates, as “The Big House.”