The GM: The Inside Story of a Dream Job and the Nightmares that Go with It | 
 enlarge | Author: Tom Callahan
Publisher: Crown
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 57779
Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6 x 1.2
ISBN: 0307394131
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.332069
EAN: 9780307394132
ASIN: 0307394131
Publication Date: September 18, 2007
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Product Description
In the summer of 2006, the NFL’s most senior general manager, Ernie Accorsi, invited Tom Callahan “inside” the Giants organization to experience a season—Accorsi’s last—from the front office, the locker room, the sidelines, and the tunnel. Tom made no promises, except that he’d bring to the project the same fairness and thoroughness that characterized his acclaimed Unitas biography, Johnny U. The result is a remarkable book that is at once a chronicle of a tumultuous season and the story of the NFL over the last three and a half decades, told through the eyes of a man who has dedicated his life to football.
The Giants started the season with high expectations, hoping to ride the talent of players like Eli Manning, Jeremy Shockey, and Tiki Barber to the Super Bowl, but the team quickly fell apart due to injuries.
The GM goes far beyond the specifics of a single season, though. In a marriage of two great raconteurs, one lobbing stories and the other neatly catching them, Callahan and Accorsi—writer and subject—show how the pro game (and the league that showcases it) really works, and the peculiar role of today’s general manager, who must be part seer, part accountant, balancing psyches and salary caps.
At its essence, The GM is the story of the job—of what it means to be the guy who makes the decisions . . . who’s second-guessed by fans and the media . . . who must deal with endless—and sometimes impossible—expectations.
Filled with the vivid anecdotes and storytelling that made Johnny U a surprise bestseller, The GM doesn’t just illuminate. It inspires with its portrait of a consummate football-personnel strategist who, over the course of decades, gave everything to the game he loved.
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 A must for football fans May 9, 2008
The GM is a tad slow in the beginning, but really picks up the pace after a couple of chapters. It's a great behind the scenes look into the Giants, and really any NFL team. Every football fan, and Giant fans in particular, owe it to themselve to read this book.
Best Football Book You Will Read This (or any) Year March 13, 2008
As a Detroit Lion fan (NFL,not to be confused with the fantasy football team with the same name), this book should be required reading for William Clay Ford and Matt Millen. It is the story of Ernie Accorsi's last year as General Manager of the New York Giants. He is the chief architect of this year's Super Ball champions. The author provides an insider's picture of how great team are created and maintained when superior ownership,leadership and organizational skills are used to field a winning team.
Accorsi is really a man who understands and values all sports combined with a sense of history and love of live. He learned his lessons on the playfields of Hershey Pennsylvania and from such personalitis as Paterno,Unitas,and Rozelle.
Accorsi is truly a man for all seasons. He is very much like Machiavelli with a heart, who finds greatness where others are blind to it.
The NFL will miss Accorsi March 11, 2008
Ernie Accorsi, the "GM" of the New York Giants, was a link to the NFL's great past of Pete Rozelle, Wellington Mara, John Unitas and Jim Finks. In those days, the phrase "for the good of the game" was a frequent motivation for doing the right thing for the players, fans and that elite fraternity who invested their money to make it America's favorite sport. The way Accorsi approached his job and treated those around him reflects that spirit, which was accurately portrayed by Tom Callahan. Men like Accorsi are disappearing from professional sports, and we are all worse off for it. If you love the game, you'll love "GM."
A Great read for any Giants Fan March 3, 2008
The book was published before the Super Bowl run and is prophetic. If you like to know what is going on in the background of a GM this is a good book. Only faults, it could have named a few names and identified more faults of bad decisions of Ernie's and others
A fine read! February 15, 2008
Enjoyed this book very much. Accorsi's stories are teriffic! And there is a memory-lane chapter where he is packing up his the personal effects and memorabilia from his desk; each item has its own little tale.
The down side - too many 2006 Giants drive summaries provided by Callahan. Filler, page-eaters.... it's a small downside, however.
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