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Sid Brooks' Tales from the San Diego Chargers Locker Room | 
 enlarge | Authors: Sid Brooks, Gerri Brooks
Creator: Dan Fouts
Publisher: Sports Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 257270
Format: Illustrated
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.7 x 0.9
ISBN: 1596700971
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.33209794985
EAN: 9781596700970
ASIN: 1596700971
Publication Date: August 1, 2006
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Condition: Brand new. Perfect condition.
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Product Description
During his 27-year tenure with the San Diego Chargers, equipment manager Sid Brooks kept over 5,000 football players from appearing naked before their cheering fans. The first African-American to hold the job of equipment manager in the NFL, Brooks? job was to see that each player left the locker room in uniform. But the means to that end was far more complicated?and outrageous?than one would believe. Sid Brooks? Tales from the Chargers Locker Room takes the reader aboard the elevator to B2, the basement of Qualcomm Stadium, where the Chargers locker room is housed. In that basement, the equipment department and trainers, affectionately known as ?dungeon rats, ? ran the Chargers locker room. There, Sid Brooks became caretaker for all who crossed its threshold. The locker room would be damp, dark, and quiet before the coffee and doughnuts arrived, before the arrogant swagger of the players and boom boxes, high-fives, and back-slapping brought the joint to life.
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 A great look inside January 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was a great look inside the locker room of the Chargers in the glory days, it is filled with lots of stories and laughs. If you are a fan of the glory days of the past this is the book for you. If you are a fan of the glory days that are comming this is the book for you.
 S.D. Chargers Book January 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This short book is a good addition to any San Diego Chargers fan's collection. Pictures, and much write-up, of the 70's team by their equipment manager Sid Brooks.
Pleased Charger Fan December 29, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this book for my son-in-law for Christmas, and he loved it! He couldn't put it down when it was time to sit down for breakfast.
Super Chargers May 21, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you grew up watching Air Coryell then you will love this book. It gives you a behind the scenes look at the San Diego Chargers as they made the transition from a good AFL team to the NFL's most exciting team, in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Charger fans won't want to put the book down.
A lively compendium of stories sports fans will relish. October 15, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This could've been featured in our California review section, but there are many fans of the San Diego Chargers, so it's featured here as a major sports book recommendation. Sid Brooks was hired as the equipment manager of the San Diego Chargers in 1973 after 20 years in the air force: he was the first Afro-American to hold that post in NFL history, and was a pioneer. His memoir of the San Diego Chargers' inside sessions captures the team's players, associations, and memories of legendary players over the decades, and makes for a lively compendium of stories sports fans will relish.
Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch
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