Super Bowl: The Game Of Their Lives | 
 enlarge | Author: Danny Peary
Publisher: Macmillan General Reference
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 448
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 6.8 x 1.3
ISBN: 0028608410
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.332648
EAN: 9780028608419
ASIN: 0028608410
Publication Date: August 15, 1997
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Condition: **NEW** Book is in excellent condition, binding tight, pages crisp & clean. No remainder marks. Dlvry confirmation inside US included. Selling books since 1979*
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Amazon.com Review
This book is intended, Danny Peary writes in his introduction, "to be a tribute to the hard-earned accomplishment of all the players who have reached the championship game." Super Bowl succeeds superbly by letting the players talk for themselves. An oral history of America's most ballyhooed sporting event, it mines the human element buried beneath the annual hype, as each player--from Bart Starr in the inaugural game to Desmond Howard, 31 contests later--recounts pro football's ultimate showdown from a personal perspective. Many of the voices--those of Roger Staubach, Franco Harris, Jim Plunkett, Joe Montana, and Troy Aikman, for example--are predictable. But it's the unexpected--Joe Jacoby, Matt Millen, Todd Christensen--who make this volume split the uprights.
Product Description
Every football fan will want to read this enormously entertaining and authoritative history of the greatest annual contest in sports, served up by the leading Super Bowl legends of the past thirty years. Author Danny Peary enlisted the cooperation of key players from Super Bowl I through Super Bowl XXXI to chronicle each game, among them Bart Starr, Len Dawson, Roger Staubach, Franco Harris, Rocky Bleier, L.C. Greenwood, Jim Plunkett, Joe Montana, Phil Simms, Steve Young, and Neil ODonnell. Chosen for their star role, contribution, fame, or fascinating personality, each has a unique, informative, highly personal, and entertaining story to tell. In Super Bowl, they tell us about the drama leading up to the championship game; the rivalries between the two teams; the significance of the game in football history; the personalities, antics, emotions, and activities of team members on and off the field; the contributions of players to the teams effort and role each played as leader, motivator, hero, or goat; and, of course, the play-by-play action of the game itself. With an immediacy that brings readers inside the players heads, into the locker rooms, and out onto the line of scrimmage, Super Bowl is not only the history of the gameunmatched in depth, scope, and insider knowledgeits also one of the most compelling sports books written in many years.Danny Peary is a film and television critic and author of the acclaimed Cult Baseball Players and We Played the Game. He lives in New York City.
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