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Tuesday Morning Quarterback: Haiku and Other Whimsical Observations to Help You Understand the Modern Game | 
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| Author: Gregg Easterbrook
Publisher: Universe Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $15.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 478412
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 80
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 5.9 x 0.6
ISBN: 0789306514
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9780789306517
ASIN: 0789306514
Publication Date: September 15, 2001
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Product Description
Based on the increasingly popular weekly football commentary on the e-zine Slate, Tuesday Morning Quarterback showcases the esoteric humor that has made Gregg Easterbrook's column a hit with sports fans on the Internet. By using Zen poetry, Newtonian physics, historical allusions, and other conceits, Easterbrook creates a fresh, ironic commentary to the philosophy of the game. Including mostly original material as well as a handful of classic TMQ commentary from his column, this book, in the wry humorous tradition of Golf in the Kingdom, The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook, and O Holy Cow! The Selected Verse of Phil Rizzuto, is an intriguingly oddball yet right-on-the-money examination of football and its culture.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
 Clueless in Gridiron September 16, 2004
0 out of 10 found this review helpful
Anyone that understands the modern game should understand that unless a game is viewed in it's entirity and thoroughly analyzed, no worthwhile evaluation can be derived. I would pass on this offerring and defer to a real expert on the subject. You wanted some exposure, you got it.
Watch the Game September 15, 2004
4 out of 16 found this review helpful
Anyone who has never played competitive sports nor even watch a particular game should not be spouting off stupid remarks just to increase readership. That is exactly what Gregg Easterbrook did. How can he possible spew out that the Oklahoma Sooners ran up the score against Houston with a score of 63-13 while in the same breath say that Western Illinois did not run up the final score of 98-7 against Cheyenne. Our starting quarterback only played the first series of the entire second quarter as did most of the rest of the starting team. Easterbrook's fervent jealousy and/or dislike of the Oklahoma football program is pretty evident in his ill conceived column. Like Mike Lupica of last year, it is quite obvious that Easterbrook did not watch the game or even the highlights, but simply wrote his nonsensical diatribe based on preconceived prejudices against Oklahoma. How someone who has never been nothing more than a "couch potato" write a book on football and expect anyone to take it seriously is a mystery to me. Personally, I believe his latest attempt at writing, "Tuesday Morning Quarterback..." is a horrible and elementary written book, and like Easterbrook, I came to this belief without reading the book, like he did not watch the game.
Easterbrook is a clown September 15, 2004
5 out of 17 found this review helpful
The football gods will punish this dufus for "writing" this tripe. He wouldn't recognize a football if it hit him in the nutz.
absolutely horrible September 15, 2004
5 out of 17 found this review helpful
I don't even have to read the book to know it is horrible, just look who wrote it. I am guessing he commented on certain games without actually watching them. Just a moron trying to throw around his opinion.
 I like football but not this book September 14, 2004
6 out of 12 found this review helpful
Lets put it this way, i was selling it on ebay within 2 hours
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