And Every Day You Take Another Bite

A Dell Book, New York. 1972. Softcover/Mass Market Paperback. Stated First Dell Printing, October 1972. Dell, 44000906-125. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light toning to pages. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 256 pp 12mo. And every year professional football gets bigger and more voracious in every way though not necessarily better and better says the author who alternately and good-humoredly ridicules the game's growing metaphorical mystique (""But when every off-tackle run is viewed as an imperialist thrust into Asia, it gets a bit paranoid""), puts down some of the razzmatazz such as ""N. Tangibles"" like ""Mo Mentum,"" and blitzes a few standouts like ""Proconsul"" Pete (the ""betting commissioner"") Rozelle and St. Vince Lombardi. Unlike Bernie Parrish's They Call It A Game (p. 792) this won't bring any goalposts down though there are enough biting irreverences to chew on. A clean very presentable copy. Copy does not appear to have been opened or read.…