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Sunday's Heroes: NFL Legends Talk About the Times of Their Lives
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by Richard Whittingham, Mike Ditka, Paul Hornung, and Pat Summerall
Sales Rank: 724461
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List Price: $19.95
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 220 pages
Published by: Triumph Books September 2004
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1572436697
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1572436695
Book Dimensions:
9.9 x 8.9 x 0.8 inches
Weighs: 2.2 pounds
From Booklist
A coffee-table book with 200 old photographs and plenty of first-person recollections from Hall of Fame players. Whittingham, who has written a number of football books, is an able tour guide and a solid writer. His goal is to let readers know what it's like to suit up on Sunday, and he makes a good run at it, thanks in equal measure to his informative text, interspersed with quotes and anecdotes from dozens of former players and coaches, and the hundreds of action photos. The best chapter is titled "Mayhem, Violence and Pain," which combines humor (legendary linebacker Sam Huff describing a wild practice-session fracas) with a sobering reminder of how damaging the game can be to the men who play it: "I didn't know it then," says Hall of Fame linebacker Dick Butkus, "but pain would be with me for the rest of my life." Pair this with Pro Football's Heroes of the Hall (see above) for the season's best NFL coffee-table fare. Kevin Canfield
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Book Description
Dating back to its inception in 1920, the National Football League was built on and by players who loved the game of football, who had incredible pride in the game they played, and whose intensity often accompanied them off the football field. Though the league and the game have undergone many changes in the past nine decades, much has also remained the same about the people who play it - the heroes. In Sunday's Heroes: NFL Legends Talk About the Times of Their Lives, Richard Whittingham allows us to relive great moments in NFL history through the words and stories of the heroes who lived them. From Jim Thorpe to Jim Brown, Johnny Unitas to John Elway, Sunday's Heroes puts us in the huddle with the greatest players of all time, and shares some of the best football stories the NFL has to offer.
Reader Reviews
This review is from: Sundays Heroes: NFL Legends Talk About the Times of Their Lives (Hardcover)
Just before Championship Sunday last week, I wanted to read something to get me in the mood for the two big games. Sunday's Heroes turned out to be a good choice. The book's concept is simple. Talk to the greats of the NFL game and ask them to share their favorite stories about their own careers and the other greats they have known. Then, generously illustrate those comments with black and white photographs that capture the game's most famous and grittiest moments. Although it's not the same as watching a game, Sunday's Heroes is a wonderful pregame show. Here are the chapters: Soft Helmets, Hard Heads; Curious Insights; Views from the Sidelines; Mayhem, Violence, and Pain; On the Wackier Side; Personalities; and The Ultimate Game. For anyone who is a fan of the old NFL teams, especially the Bears, Packers, Steelers, Giants and Redskins, this book will be seen as a gift from God. Of the newer teams, only the Cowboys get a full treatment. If you are a fan of the old AFL teams or the newer NFL franchises, you won't find much in the book about your teams. That's why I graded the book down one star. There were many interesting surprises in the book. You will learn what it was like to play with no helmet, play sixty minutes, to hear some pretty funny ways to describe plays in a huddle, and practice with some of the game's most violent defenders. The humor is sometimes very rewarding. When Joe Namath was asked by Howard Cosell how many great football commentators there were, Namath replied that there was one less than Howard thought there were. There's irony also. Mean Joe Greene is remembered for carrying a stricken Lynn Swann off the field in the 1975 AFC Championship game. Swann reports that the act wasn't the caring act it seemed. "Joe didn't care about me that much." "[Joe] just didn't want to waste a timeout. Joe was always trying to figure out how to win a ballgame." As I finished the book, I realized that we are fortunate whenever we can live in times when the greatest violence we see is in the game of football. Congratulations to the Patriots on their win in Super Bowl XXXVIII! Congratulations also to the Carolina Panthers for playing an outstanding game against them.
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