| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
x, 276 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Summary |
In the summer of 2006, the NFL's most senior general manager, Ernie Accorsi, invited sports journalist 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. The result is at once a chronicle of a tumultuous season and the story of the NFL over the last three and a half decades. 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, and, in Accorsi's case, a consummate football-personnel strategist who, over the course of decades, gave everything to the game he loved. |
| Contents |
Preface : the essence of sports -- The Meadows game -- Manning vs. Manning -- Red licorice -- Plaxico -- The Baltimore Colts : drafting John Elway -- The Cleveland Browns : stealing Bernie Kosar -- The New York Giants : signing Kerry Collins -- Shock -- The draft -- Ronnie -- The cap -- Parcells -- Off the street -- Reese -- Goodbye, Tooms -- Time-out, Giants -- "It's a fabulous game" -- Titanic, Hindenburg, Joe Pisarcik... -- K balls -- "Number sixty-nine is reporting..." -- Still watching football games on TV -- Double safety delayed blitz -- Real life in the sports world -- "There's a championship in this room" -- Countdown. |
| Subject |
National Football League.
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Football -- United States.
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Accorsi, Ernie.
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New York Giants (Football team) -- Biography.
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| Added Title |
General manager |
| ISBN |
0307394131 |
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9780307394132 |
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