Stitching together first-person accounts from players who span the spectrum of playing days, For the Glory of Their Game takes fans not only inside the sport, not only inside specific games, but inside the mind of the men making the action happen. For decades, Richard Whittingham covered professional football as a reporter and researcher and this book stands as the product of all that work, with anecdotes and accounts gathered from such football icons as: Jim Brown, Roger Staubach, Jim McMahon, Bo Jackson, Frank Gifford, Joe Namath, Tony Dorsett, Mike Ditka, and Terry Bradshaw. No other book this fall captures the scope and detail across the decades, from team to team, that For the Glory of Their Game offers casual and diehard fans.
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Professional football in the new millennium is still basically the same game that Red Grange, Sammy Baugh, Otto Graham, Dick Butkus, and Roger Staubach played. And yet it isn’t. Exploding salaries, increasing specialization, rules changes, and myriad other factors have conspired to change football permanently in subtle and not-so-subtle ways. For the Glory of Their Game harkens back to the era before these changes, celebrating the glorious postwar years through the early eighties, when, as Mike Ditka so succinctly and perceptively put it, "We played for the love of the game." Through the compelling words of many of the greatest players and coaches from that era, this book recreates in dramatic and intriguing fashion what football was like in the fifties, sixties, seventies, and early eighties. Read what Alex Karras says about Big Daddy Lipscomb, what would-be tacklers thought about the dazzle of Gale Sayers, and what running backs had to say about the painful encounters with Dick Butkus and Jack Lambert. These personal stories reveal players’ views on Bobby Layne, the bravado of Joe Namath, and the out-and-out meanness of Conrad Dobler. Included are the sad tale of the ill-fated Brian Piccolo, the hilarious reminiscences of Art Donovan, and the outrageous observations of Hollywood Henderson. Football in this era was raw. The players were a raucous group, as uninhibited off the field as they were savage on it. They loved the game, no doubt about it; they loved the fellowship and the camaraderie of playing on a team with others whose goals were the same as theirs. It was intense, but it was, above all, fun. The stories, anecdotes, and behind-the-scenes insights that make up For the Glory of Their Game reveal just how much fun they had.
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