Collision Low Crossers: A Year Inside the Turbulent World of NFL Football by Nicholas Dawidoff
››› Get audio book for free. ‹‹‹ Original Title: Collision Low Crossers ISBN: 0316196797 ISBN13: 9780316196796 Autor: Nicholas Dawidoff Rating: 3.1 of 5 stars (2958) counts Original Format: Hardcover, 496 pages Download Format: PDF, DJVU, iBook, MP3. Published: November 19th 2013 / by Little, Brown and Company / (first published January 1st 2013) Language: English Genre(s):
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Description: An unrivaled portrait of day-to-day life in the NFL: "Riveting...An instant classic." -- New York Times Book Review By spending a year with the New York Jets, Nicholas Dawidoff entered a mysterious and private world with its own rituals and language. Equal parts Paper Lion, Moneyball, Friday Night Lights, and The Office, this absorbing, funny, and vivid narrative gets to the heart of a massive and stressful collective endeavor. Here is football in many faces: the polarizing, brilliant, and hilarious head coach; the general manager, whose job is to support (and suppress) the irrepressible coach; the defensive coaches and their in-house rivals, the offensive coaches; and of course the players. Wise safeties, brooding linebackers, high-strung cornerbacks, enthusiastic rookies, and a well-read nose tackle-they make up a strange and complex family. Dawidoff makes an emblematic NFL season come alive for fans and nonfans alike in a book about football that will forever change the way people watch and think about the sport.
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Rewiews:
Jun 10, 2014 victor harris Rated it: it was amazing An excellent in depth look at the behind-the-scenes operations of the New York Jets during the 2011 season, with a concluding section that takes readers through the Tebow fiasco in the subsequent season. This was a little heavy on the Rex Ryan worship but seems balanced in the rest of its coverage. What I found striking is how Ryan as head coach had so little to do with the actual game preparations and game management. He serves as more carnival barker than hands-on director. The commentary and An excellent in depth look at the behind-the-scenes operations of the New York Jets during the 2011 season, with a concluding section that takes readers through the Tebow fiasco in the subsequent season. This was a little heavy on the Rex Ryan worship but seems balanced in the rest of its coverage. What I found striking is how Ryan as head coach had so little to do with the actual game preparations and game management. He serves as more carnival barker than hands-on director. The commentary and excerpts give an unflattering view of the juvenile Mark Sanchez and thinskinned Antonio Cromartie; neither of whom are with the team now. It confirms other negative portraits of players such as Santonio Holmes, who is part of the "me first" self-absorbed diva trend among NFL wide receivers. He and others made for a very
dysfunctional Jets organization where players pretty much march to their own beat and management and coaches are at their mercy. Ryan plays the sympathetic father figure who tolerated it: because of the " boys will be boys" attitude. One of the major defects of this otherwise impressive account is the annoying habitual use of initials for people rather than using their real names. Nevertheless, it is a very good detailed narrative of the intricacies of the preparation for the NFL draft and week-to-week game planning. 5 likes
