Super Bowl Chronicles: A Sportswriter Reflects on the First 25 Years of America's Game - Hardcover

Green, Jerry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0940279320 ISBN 13: 9780940279322

Publisher: Masters Pr, 1991

Synopsis

An oral history of the Super Bowl draws on personal notes, anecdotes, interviews, and in-depth research to provide a look at one of America's most popular sporting events and at the colorful personalities who have transformed the game

About this title

From Library Journal

Veteran football journalist Green offers this enjoyable book about his experiences in reporting the National Football League's (NFL) 24 Super Bowls. One of only a handful of sportswriters who have covered every Super Bowl, Green's reminiscences are chock-full of NFL lore and amusing anecdotes. Keeping play-action coverage and the usual antibroadcast rantings to a minimum, Green concentrates on behind-the-scenes stories of confrontations and camaraderie, unique glimpses of football's greats, and a smattering of NFL history. While he acknowledges the Super Bowl's tendency to be less-than-exciting competition, Green's fast-paced, articulate writing and infectious love of the game make this book a treat to read. It should appeal to both diehard football fans and any casual fan seeking a Cliff Notes -like version of the past 24 years of football history. Recommended.
- John Turner , New York
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Publishers Weekly

This work by a Detroit News sportswriter is no romanticized look at pro football's biggest event. At the outset Green stresses that the contest is "seldom a very good football game" and labels it "an annual slopfest in the dungeon of excess." But the author's interest is less in the game, the strategies of offense and defense, and the memorable plays (few though they may have been) than in the people involved. They include players like Joe Namath, who thumbed his nose at spectators by retiring to his hotel room with two women, and managers like Chuck Noll, shown responding copiously to questions from brainless sports reporters. Green also makes some observations on the price-gouging that every host city of the Super Bowl considers its prerogative. The book is so richly anecdotal that even non-fans will enjoy it. Photos not seen by PW.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Masters Pr
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0940279320
• ISBN 13: 9780940279322
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 339