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 enlarge | Manufacturer: Crown
Category: EBooks
List Price: $14.95
Buy New: $9.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 7088
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.332069
ASIN: B000VMFDQS
Publication Date: September 18, 2007
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 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.
 Good Pats/G-Men Super Bowl Primer January 28, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Not a great book, but something to supplement the hype before XLII; or, to keep it at a fever pitch when the season ends.
Accorsi and Callahan fit together well: these are old-time guys from the sportwriter and GM social clubs that have fallen by the wayside as sports media has been conglomerated and become BIG competitive business. Callahan has some really good access to current Giants, but also spends a lot of time in Accorsi and the league's past. The worthwhile reading is the behind the scenes stuff on Plaxico Burress, Eli Manning, Tiki Barber and the other guys from the 2006 team, this is stuff that really informs the run that the Giants made in 2007. I'm not a Giants fan, so I can't say how much of this is new, original, insightful stuff for someone who follows the team (i.e., "The Blueprint," this year's Patriots expose had very little new stuff in it for the avid Pats fan).
The trip down memory lane is tired and dull. A lot of folksy metaphors and cliche. It smacks of a guy wanting to set the record straight on his career, his accomplishments, and the failures. One of the reasons the history is really irrelevant is that so much of the stuff recounts guys who - like Accorsi now - are has-beens: Bernie Kosar? Ted Marchibroda? John Ameche? These were the stars of the Rozelle-era NFL. It is a different game today.
As another reviewer notes, the book also suffers from Callahan's style. He notes in the preface that he told Accorsi he couldnt do the book in the style of an "as told to," but a lot of the book is so poorly written - so stream of conscious sounding - that it feels like Callahan must have taken whole sections of tape from his interviews with Accorsi and transcribed them.
One really good thing about having a guy who is out of the league contribute on the book is that he isn't afraid to give some people both barrels. There are several surpsrising moments where Accorsi recounts inside info on conversations about personnel decisions and shows no inclination toward sparing the feelings of the guys discussed.
Still, the only reason I picked the book up was the Giants unexpected playoff run to XLII: if you can fit it in around the game, that's probably the only good reason to read it.
JAW
For Every Lover of Football January 26, 2008
Quite simply, it is my favorite non-fiction book of the past decade and the best sports book I've ever read. Poignant stories from Johnny Unitas to Eli Manning to Jerry Reese. The GM is a journey through the NFL from the glory years of the old Baltimore Colts through 2006. A wonderful read that is impossible to put down.
a fun, quick read January 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
After the first 67 pages of this book, I was pretty disappointed. I was hoping for more insight, more of a connection to the players, more inside the organization. It's obviously here, but not to the lengths that one might hope. Basically, I was hoping for the NY Giants version of "Feeding the Monster."
This book isn't that.
But once you accept that, this is a very enjoyable book. Ernie Acorsi seems like a class act, and it's fun to read about his history in the NFL. Some of his remarks are very candid, and I appreciate that. He's an interesting guy, and a worthy subject. You learn some interesting facts about the inner workings of an NFL franchise, even if it's pretty light on the drama. I thought the most interesting material was on Tom Coughlin. I won't spoil any of it, but it certainly gave me a new look at him.
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