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Pain Gang: Pro Football's Fifty Toughest Players
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by Neil Reynolds
Sales Rank: 986652
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List Price: $25.95
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 334 pages
Published by: Potomac Books Inc. October 4, 2006
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1597970131
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1597970136
Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 6.2 x 1.1 inches
Weighs: 1.2 pounds
From Booklist
It's almost axiomatic that "toughness," as an athletic attribute, seems more easily applied to yesterday's heroes than today's, perhaps because, with players of earlier eras, we tend to remember only particular displays of grittiness and forget moments of mediocrity. In selecting pro football's toughest players at various positions, Reynolds certainly supports the axiom. Although his choices aren't ranked in order of toughness, he makes the strongest cases for the old guys. Who would challenge the legendary Chuck Bednarik of the Eagles, last of the two-way players and the man who KO'd Frank Gifford, as the toughest of all linebackers; or who would suggest that any quarterback other than Y. A. Tittle--he of the bloodied pate in perhaps football's most famous photograph--deserves the title of toughest signal-caller? (On the other hand, wouldn't you back Donovan McNabb in a street fight against Tittle?) There are no right answers, of course, and football fans of a certain age will enjoy reliving the bone-crunching exploits of yesteryear. Bill Ott
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Product Description
No sport demands toughness more than professional football, and no sport celebrates it with as much joy, excitement, and pride. John Madden annually offers his picks of the top tough guys, and sick hits are shown repeatedly on jumbotrons nationwide and ESPNs Sportscenter. Anyone whos ever watched an NFL Films production can surely hear the voicethat distinctive narratorlauding the warriors of the gridiron who lay it all out there. Imagine his voice as you say: These tough men came to do battle today, and only the fiercest will win.
Into this atmosphere comes Neil Reynolds, public relations manager for the NFL in Europe, and his new book Pain Gang: Pro Footballs Fifty Toughest Players. From early day heroes, such as Bronko Nagurski, Clark Hinkle, and Frank Bruiser Kinard, to Hall of Famers like Ronnie Lott, Walter Payton, and Dick Butkus, to such modern-day iron men as Emmitt Smith, Brett Favre, and Rodney Harrison, Reynolds lauds some of the toughest, meanest, most inspirational, and hardest-working men in the roughest sport. He includes interviews with teammates, coaches, opponents, and the players themselves on what it means to be tough, how they characterize toughness, and even who was the toughest of them all.
Some players fought through broken bones and tired bodies. Others laid out opponents with the hardest of hits. Still others proved themselves on the battlefields of World War II before joining this secondary field of battle. And some played hard and fastmostly within the rulesin order to intimidate their opponents through sheer fear.
Whatever their means, these guys were tough and knew itand they made sure everyone else did as well. Meet the Pain Gang, and youll know it too.
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