The Best Game Ever by Mark Bowden

The Best Game Ever by Mark Bowden

This is the remarkable story of the 1958 NFL Championship game between the Colts and the Giants - considered by many to be the greatest American football game ever played - from Mark Bowden, bestselling author of "Black Hawk Down". On December 28, 1958, the New York Giants and Baltimore Colts met under the lights of Yankee Stadium for the American NFL Championship game. Played in front of sixty-four thousand fans and millions of television viewers around the country, the game would be remembered as the greatest in football history. On the field and roaming the sidelines were seventeen future Hall of Famers, including Colts stars Johnny Unitas, Raymond Berry, and Gino Marchetti, and Giants greats Frank Gifford, Sam Huff, and assistant coaches Vince Lombardi and Tom Landry. An estimated forty-five million viewers - at that time the largest crowd to have ever watched a football game - tuned in to see what would become the first sudden-death contest in NFL history. It was a battle of the league's best offense - the Colts - versus its best defense - the Giants. And it was a contest between the blue-collar Baltimore team versus the glamour boys of the Giants squad. "The Best Game Ever" is a brilliant portrait of how a single game changed the history of American sport and is destined to become a classic.

'Scrupulously researched.. Bowden succeeds in making a contest from a half-century ago seem fresh, in part because he has a keen sense for the anecdotal... A great story and a great game.' Wall Street Journal

Mark Bowden is the bestselling author of Killing Pablo, Finders Keepers, Guests of the Ayatollah and Black Hawk Down, which was made into a successful film by Ridley Scott. He is a national correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly.

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Titel	The Best Game Ever
Autor	Mark Bowden
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Atlantic Books
Erscheinungsjahr	2009-08-01
Seitenanzahl	240
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