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NFL Unplugged: The Brutal, Brilliant World of Professional Football


en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 dec 2010
Blood, guts, and glory-veteran players reveal the NFL you never see on TV Behind every glittering NFL game on television is a world of happy pain for a hundred men. NFL Unplugged lets you see that world through the eyes of the pros who live and sweat in it. Here are the places the cameras don't go: the locker room where coaches' speeches can deflate or motivate, the huddle where fart jokes vie with playcalling, the training camp where locusts and heat conspire to break the strongest bodies and shake the most determined minds. Now you can experience it all up close and unplugged.
  • Draws on firsthand accounts of more than thirty players and coaches from teams across the NFL, including Mark Schlereth, Bill Romanowski, Kevin Long, Kyle Turley, John Gruden, Hugh Douglas, Jon Runyan, and Michael Strahan
  • An unvarnished look at everything from training camp and broken dreams, conditioning and injuries, and camaraderie and hazing to the quest to gain a competitive edge and the exhilarating triumphs of the game
  • Written by one of the top figures in sports radio, Anthony Gargano of Philadelphia's 610-WIP
From the injuries that never heal and the money that never lasts to the memories and the glory that never fade, NFL Unplugged shows the unbridled brutality and sheer brilliance of the game.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780470522837
ISBN-10: 0470522836
Pagini: 270
Dimensiuni: 160 x 246 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Editura: Wiley
Locul publicării:Hoboken, United States

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NFL football fans.

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Blood, guts, and glory--the NFL you never see on TV

Behind every glittering NFL game on television is a world of happy pain for a hundred men. "NFL Unplugged" lets you see that world through the eyes of the pros who live and sweat in it--including firsthand accounts of more than thirty players and coaches from teams across the NFL, including Mark Schlereth, Bill Romanowski, Kevin Long, Kyle Turley, Jon Gruden, Hugh Douglas, Jon Runyan, and Michael Strahan. Here are the places the cameras and microphones don't go, places where you'll discover:

What really happens in huddles and pile-ups

How coaches' speeches can inspire players or deflate them

Why every NFL player dreads training camp--and loves it, too

What "the dark place" is and why players go there during games

How a player can be crippled six days a week and play football on the seventh

How far some players and coaches will go to win

Why so many players end up broke after years of huge salaries

"Very rarely--once a decade maybe--do we get the chance to peer behind the NFL curtain and experience the lives of players. Anthony Gargano has done that here, and we're lucky to get such an unvarnished view."
--Peter King, senior writer, "Sports Illustrated"

"He may ooze of South Philly on his wildly successful radio show, but the Anthony Gargano I know also is a brilliant writer and reporter who was made to do a book that rips open the NFL and presents it on a transparent, compelling platter."
--Jay Mariotti, national columnist, "AOL FanHouse" and daily panelist on ESPN's "Around the Horn"

"Gargano gives you a front-row seat to the agony and ecstasy of the NFL. From packed stadiums and glory to the icy reality of pain and injury, you won't be able to put this book down."
--Mike Mayock, analyst, NFL Network


Notă biografică

ANTHONY L. GARGANO has been the host of the midday show for Philadelphia's top sports radio station, 610 WIP, since 2000. He does pregame and postgame analysis on the local Fox affiliate for the Eagles. He has done the same for the Phillies, in addition to weekly commentaries and sit-down interviews for the 5 and 10 o'clock news and "Good Day Philadelphia." Formerly, he was a sportswriter for the "New York Post," "Philadelphia Inquirer," and the Associated Press in Chicago and is currently a senior writer for AOL Fanhouse.