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 enlarge | Author: Tim Green
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  43 reviews
Sales Rank: 90058
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.5 x 4.5 x 1
ISBN: 0446605204
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.3320202
EAN: 9780446605205
ASIN: 0446605204
Publication Date: November 1, 1997
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 Dark Side Not Up To Hype April 18, 2006
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book does tell somewhat of what its like in the NFL, but on most of the accounts its based on one persons view. I am sure the writer had first hand knowledge, but he paints a picutre of the NFL that makes it look bad. In a time where image is everything the writer seems to paint a bad picture of the NFL. I found the book hard to read and it too me a long time to read it. There are other NFL books out there that I am sure are better, but I have yet to find one. This book is ok, it takes you behind the scenes in the locker rooms, the training rooms, the hotels and travel. It gives you a first hand look at what the players do on the field and off the field. However I don't think it was written all that well.
 The Dark Side of the Game : My Life in the NFL March 10, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Excellent insight into big time football. Tim Green is on his way to the writer's Superbowl.
 there's no meat in here November 18, 2005
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book would be great if Tim Green actually named a few names aside from the guys he's talking up (see Dion, Steve Young).
Instead it's a continuous cycle of 'a player I once played with/against' did some unthinkable act. The end result is that no one cares what Green has to say because he never takes any risks and the reader becomes bored quickly.
Quick tip: Read Lawrence Taylor's second autobiography for the real inside scoop on life in the NFL. LT holds nothing back, especially on himself. Now THAT's a book I couldn't put down.
interesting book, enlightening August 12, 2005
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
this is a good football book from a player perspective. the author is knowledgeable, and writes a good book. i could not put it down, and read it fairly quickly. it's not a 'glorified' tale, either.
An inside look at the sport our country loves... April 15, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Whether negative or positive or both, People who watch NFL football year after year often forget what it takes to put those 22 men on the field against each other.
Tim Green, former Defensive End for the Atlanta Falcons during their playoff runs in the 90's, has taken us behind the scenes and shed light on what it's like to start out in the NFL.
Some interesting points in the book was how often players are not only playing injured, but in pain all of the time and never "100 percent" because of the toll the game takes on their body. Green explores Training camp, contract talks, team doctors who do everything short of a miracle to make you capable of playing, plus so much more.
Another interesting note is how they really are used in the NFL, like marketable beef cattle, who, as soon as something happens to them, are deemed disposable and worthless. Such silly things as having their skulls measured and their 40 yard dash times scrutinized are rampant in this book, showing you just how hard it is to make it in the NFL, and how easy you can be "out" in a heartbeat.
Before you watch a fictinoal movie like "Any Given Sunday" or that short lived cable series-drama "Playmakers", read this book, take it from someone who was there.
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