Super Bowl: The Game of Their Lives - Hardcover

Peary, Danny

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0028608410 ISBN 13: 9780028608419

Publisher: Macmillan General Reference, 1997

Synopsis

Drawing on the personal accounts of players from Super Bowl I to the present day, including such legends as Jim Plunkett, Joe Montana, and Roger Staubach, a close-up look at the sports spectacular describes the events of each game and the pressures, joys, and struggles involved.

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Review:

This book is intended, Danny Peary writes in his introduction, "to be a tribute to the hard-earned accomplishment of all the players who have reached the championship game." Super Bowl succeeds superbly by letting the players talk for themselves. An oral history of America's most ballyhooed sporting event, it mines the human element buried beneath the annual hype, as each player--from Bart Starr in the inaugural game to Desmond Howard, 31 contests later--recounts pro football's ultimate showdown from a personal perspective. Many of the voices--those of Roger Staubach, Franco Harris, Jim Plunkett, Joe Montana, and Troy Aikman, for example--are predictable. But it's the unexpected--Joe Jacoby, Matt Millen, Todd Christensen--who make this volume split the uprights.

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan General Reference
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0028608410
• ISBN 13: 9780028608419
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 448