On Any Given Sunday

“Pat Toomay has mixed fact and fiction to produce a story that will make every armchair quarterback laugh and wince—and worry at his exposition of “the game’s” most insidious reality: the prospect — on any given Sunday—of a fix.” —John Seigenthaler, USA Today
 
“Toomay, for many years a lineman with the Cowboys and the Raiders, gives a sinister turn to the old saw that ‘on any given Sunday, one team can beat another’. . . . He writes knowledgeably about football: its strategy, the pain, the respect and hatred between the men in the trenches.” —Publishers Weekly

Pat Toomay played ten years in the NFL. He is the author of two books about pro football: The Crunch, an irreverent look at the Dallas Cowboys during the Tom Landry–era, and the novel, On Any Given Sunday. He has written for the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Nashville Tennessean, Rolling Stone, GQ, ESPNs Page 2 and Salon.com, among other venues. His ESPN columns broke readership records. An article about his involvement in Oliver Stone’s football film was included in Houghton Mifflin’s Best American Sportswriting 2000 and has been added as postscript to the eBook edition of On Any Given Sunday. Toomay lives and writes in Albuquerque, NM.