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No Medals for Trying: A Week in the Life of a Pro Football Team

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Just as he did in his wonderful book about Game of the 1986 NLCS between the Mets and the Astros, Jerry Izenberg of the Newark Star-Ledger takes the reader inside for an up close look at all the factors leading up to a single game. This time, the game is just the preparation for a regular season NFL game in 1989 between the New York Giants and Philadelphia Eagles, a game that the Giants didn't even win, but what makes this book so engrossing is that it is the only book written by a sportswriter up to this point that takes an in-depth look at the mind of Coach Bill Parcells during his Giants glory days, and what made the Giants of the late 1980s so special. The reader is given a front row seat to the life of a team in the week leading up to a game, and even though the game wasn't won, you come away understanding why Parcells was still able to win another Super Bowl one year later.

An ordinary sportsbook that details a season with the New York Giants under Bill Parcells.

Absolutely an example of the garden variety ordinary sports book.

Of course, getting close to an NFL team and writing about them with any particular depth and getting to be allowed to do it wouldn't be easy, either.