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The best, finest football sports book written so far. A great novel whether you enjoy sports or football. The man had one teriffic book in him, and this is it. Details not only the strenghts and weakness's of sports/football but of people and life. There are no bad guys. We haz seen duh enemy and it is us. READ THIS BOOK!

a truly entertaining book. peter gent may have done the impossible by eclipsing "north dallas forty"

If you want to know the TRUTH; if you want to know about LIVIN AND LOVIN, you'll begin to appreciate just how much Peter Gent has put into this spectacular accomplishment. There's enough to keep you revved at maximum overdrive for at least three books worth. Yahoo!!

The Title reflects the answer to a question asked by a friend when I loaned him this book to read, "you mean a jock wrote this?"

I bought this book when it had just came out and I have re-read it many times. Each time there seems to be more of the story that comes out - that's how good a writer he is.

Anybody who first read the book and then followed the Sports pages will wonder if the NFL was reading this too for guidelines as many of the predictions in this book of fiction have come true today including:

The NFL channel and Pay for View (Satellite package) Games,

Personal Seat Licenses that some teams have made fans buy to help finance their stadiums.

Stadium funding by Cities which come at Taxpayer expense rather then the Owners.

Ticket Scalping of Super Bowl Tickets by the Commissioner and the league.

Why the Player's Union doesn't always seem to have the best interest of the Players when it deals with the owners

Crooked Agents!

Possible Mob influence on the Owners.

You will also learn to look skeptically when a team announces a multi-million dollar contract for a player.

Read it and enjoy the story!

Having read several of Peter Gent's previous works judging by the cover, I assumed that this would be a story about football. Well , you can't judge a book by its cover. (Did somebody say that once?) Although, this book revolves around the front office and star quarterback of an expansion football team, there really is very little football going on. Instead, we are presented with some of the seedy side of a professional sports team with everything from point shaving to murder. Not an uninteresting read but it does get slow in the middle. The last section really picks it up and makes the read rewarding overall. Not as good as North Dallas Forty or The Conquering Heroes but certainly better than North Dallas After Forty.