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Books : The Best Game Ever: Giants vs. Colts, 1958, and the Birth of the Modern NFL |
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List Price: $74.25Amazon.com's Price: $54.20 You Save: $20.05 (27%)Prices subject to change.
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Binding: Audio Cassette
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9781423367918
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
ISBN: 142336791X
Label: Brilliance Audio Unabridged Lib Ed
Manufacturer: Brilliance Audio Unabridged Lib Ed
Number Of Items: 5
Publication Date: May 12, 2008
Publisher: Brilliance Audio Unabridged Lib Ed
Release Date: May 12, 2008
Sales Rank: 3174431
Studio: Brilliance Audio Unabridged Lib Ed
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Product Description:
On December 28, 1958, the New York Giants and Baltimore Colts met under the lights of Yankee Stadium for that season’s NFL Championship game. Football, growing in popularity amid America’s post-war economic boom, was still greatly over-shadowed by the country’s favored pastime – baseball – but the 1958 championship proved to be the turning point for pro football.
On the field and roaming the sidelines were seventeen future Hall of Famers, including Colts stars Johnny Unitas, Raymond Berry, and Gino Marchetti, and Giants greats Frank Gifford, Sam Huff, and assistant coaches Vince Lombardi and Tom Landry.
Played on a freezing Sunday evening in front of 64,000 fans and an estimated forty-five million television viewers around the country - at that time the largest crowd to have ever watched a football game - the championship would become the first sudden-death contest in NFL history. With two minutes left in regulation, Baltimore had possession deep in its own territory, and the ball in the hands of the still unproven quarterback Johnny Unitas.
The Best Game Ever is a brilliant portrait of how a single game changed the history of American sports. Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the championship, it is destined to be a sports classic.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Poorly Written High School Essay
As a huge Colts fan, I was extremely excited to finally get my copy of one of the greatest games the NFL has ever seen. However, just a few pages into the book, I realize that this book is just a poor compilation of a bunch of other books, and was poorly written at that. I was very disappointed to see such a shotty interpretation of this amazing story from someone as acclaimed as Mark Bowden.
Don't get me wrong, it had a ton of good information and laugh out loud points, but the story ... Read More
Rating:  - Unitas to Berry, First Down Colts
Bowden is a tremendous non-fiction writer, and I enjoyed this book tremendously, but it is a quick, light treatment of a subject loaded with nuance and historical context. The subtitle is Giants vs. Colts, 1958 and the Birth of the Modern NFL, but other than an epilog chapter, it does not really cover much ground after 1958.
This is the work of a terrific author churning out a quick book between his more serious efforts. There are strong portraits of several players, particularly Unitas ... Read More
Rating:  - It' was like yesterday
My husband Norman was at the game 50 years ago. It was brought to life by the author. I can still remember Raymond Berry making catch after catch to set up Alan ameche with the winning score.
Thanks for the memories.
Rating: - All NFL Roads Lead to this game
The 1958 NFL Championship Game is and always will be the starting point for any discussion about the birth of modern pro football. While some consider it the greatest game ever played, I think an argument can be made against that. Bowden recalls a list of the sloppy play that were part of this game. However, what is undoubtedly true is that this was the most important game in NFL history. Pro football was not the dominant sport and money making machine of today. Baseball still ruled the roost of professional ... Read More
Rating: - Plenty of meat for most and a quick enjoyable read
I really never knew much about pre-Super Bowl era football except for what I've read on the Vince Lombardi coached the Packers (and his bio is fantastic BTW). This account really gives a nice history of the NFL leading up to this game and sketches brief but accurate bios of many of the games key participants. In particualr Raymond Berry gets a LOT of coverage, so does Johhny Unitas, to lesser extent so do Gifford, Ameche, Donovan, Big Daddy Lipscomb, Conerly, and Moore. He does an excellent job summarizing the game ... Read More
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