Big game : the NFL in dangerous times
Leibovich, Mark2018
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Like millions of Americans, Mark Leibovich has spent more of his life tuned into pro football than he'd care to admit. Being a lifelong New England Patriots fan meant growing up on a steady diet of lovable loserdom. That is, until the Tom Brady/Bill Belichick era made the Pats the most ruthlessly efficient and polarising sports dynasty of the modern NFL, and its fans the most irritating in all of Pigskin America. From the owners' meeting to the draft to the sidelines of crucial games, Leibovich takes in the show at the elbow of everyone from Brady to big-name owners to the cordially despised NFL Commissioner, Roger Goodell. Ultimately, 'Big Game' is a chronicle of 'peak football' - the high point of the sport's economic success and cultural dominance, but also the time when the dark side began to show. It is an era of explosive revenue growth, but also one of creeping existential fear.
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Big game : the NFL in dangerous times / Mark Leibovich.
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Imprint:
London : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018.
Collation:
xxiv, 373 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (colour) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780008317614 (hbk)
Dewey class:
796.3'3264'06796.3326406
Language:
English
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BRN:
2679394
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