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Get Your Own Damn Beer, I'm Watching the Game!: A Woman's Guide to Loving Pro Football | 
 enlarge | Authors: Holly Robinson Peete, Daniel Paisner
Creator: Marcus Allen
Publisher: Rodale Books
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 79495
Format: Bargain Price
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.4 x 0.4
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.332640973
ASIN: B000SOVC7S
Publication Date: August 15, 2005
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Product Description
Year after year, Sunday afternoons and Monday nights during the NFL season have belonged to men. While they cheer and argue play calls, the women in their lives are relegated to beer and chip detail. It's time for these women to join the action, and Holly Robinson Peete, star of 21 Jump Street, For Your Love, and Hangin' with Mr. Cooper, and wife of NFL quarterback Rodney Peete, has written this hip, smart, cheerful guide to help them do so.
Peete shares her infectious enthusiasm for pro football and takes the complexity out of the game by breaking it down to its component parts. She explains the role of each position player, provides a rundown of all on-field penalties and referees' hand signals, and offers an illustrated guide to some of the most common plays in the NFL. She gives her take on the most memorable plays in NFL history and dishes some inside dirt-in a breezy, girl-talkin' narrative that promises to turn the novice spectator into a well-informed football fanatic.
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 Thanks to her! I'm loving football March 31, 2008
I love it. It's funny but yet serious. I was able to enjoy myself reading the book. NOthing boring. Everything is in detail.
I am loving football now! February 23, 2008
I have become a football fanatic and this book is part of the reason! It's funny and informative and a good read all around.
Great for Dating a Football Lover January 5, 2008
This book really inspires me to try to get to know the game of football a little better. Every football season I feel like I should care more about the game to connect with my significant other. After reading this, I have the basic knowledge to start my own passion for football.
Fun read! January 1, 2008
This is a fun look at football! Holly Robinson Peete uses such a converstational tone, it seems like she's talking directly to you. It is helpful to a novice football fan, but also enjoyable to someone who has logged in several hours on the couch on Saturday or Sunday.
 Great coffe table reference for women October 21, 2007
I have watched football for years. I understand the basics but wanted to know more about intricacies of the game, such as play calling. This book does a pretty good job covering both the basics and the intricacies. It is a little sophomoric at times and definitely for women only. As in, "So and so has the nicest butt in a uniform." "The quarterback is the player who starts the play; you'll know the defense is on the field when the quarterback isn't." So Holly starts the lesson from the beginning--the VERY beginning.
I highly doubt there is an American male over the age of 10 who doesn't know who the quarterback is, but I imagine there are some women out there who have never watched a football game or never heard about a football game. These women I speak of are clearly NOT from Texas. Because, man or woman, you have to be in a coma to live in Texas and not know everything there is to know about football.
I could have done without the chapter on NFL wives (yawn, who cares), but this is a book marketed to women so fluff is to be expected. Be it out of jealousy (at least I am being honest) or disinterest, I have no desire to read about the trials and tribulations of being a rich NFL wife. I saw that chapter title and skipped straight to next chapter.
A few more graphics would have been nice to aid in understanding what she was explaining, but good job overall in covering the ins-and-outs of what is happening on the field from start to finish. Now when the announcers mention a "slant" or "play action" I know what they are talking about or can look it up. Great reference book to have on the coffee table during football season. I wish I had this book years ago.
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