Research Catalog

Title

Collision low crossers : a year inside the turbulent world of NFL football / Nicholas Dawidoff.

Author

Dawidoff, Nicholas

Publication

New York : Little, Brown and Company, [2013]

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Details

Description

x, 485 pages; 25 cm

Summary

"Football is the country's most popular pastime, and yet most of what happens in today's NFL is a mystery. The New York Jets gave Nicholas Dawidoff a security code, a locker, an office in the scouting department, and for an entire year he lived with the team. He has written a vivid, funny, and moving narrative about an emblematic NFL season that deepens the way we know the game. In COLLISION LOW CROSSERS, Dawidoff introduces us to a memorable cast of characters: brilliant, polarizing head coach Rex Ryan; the defensive coaches and their offensive counterparts and rivals; the best defensive player in football Darrelle Revis and the young, whimsical, and erratic quarterback Mark Sanchez; and the brotherhood of American characters who come together to form a team. Here finally is the definitive work on the elusive game, a story that is part Paper Lion and part Moneyball, part Deliverance and part The Office"--

Subject

• New York Jets (Football team)
• National Football League
• Football > United States
• SPORTS & RECREATION / Football
• Football
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Before. Prologue: a football metabolism -- Combine -- Brothers -- Tape don't lie -- An inexact science -- The sound of silence -- The game face is on -- During. Training camp -- Dime spike 1 (Vegas) -- The world changes -- Dispatches from a losing streak -- Softness -- Revis Island -- Football is my father -- After. Rex in winter.

ISBN

• 9780316196796 (hardback)
• 0316196797 (hardback)

LCCN

^^2013030013

OCLC

827082597

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library