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Collision low crossers a year inside the turbulent world of NFL football

"Football is the country's most popular pastime, and yet most of what happens in today's NFL is a mystery. The New York Jets gave Nicholas Dawidoff a security code, a locker, [and] an office in the scouting department, and for an entire year he lived with the team. He has written a .....

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Main Author: Dawidoff, Nicholas.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2013.
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
New York Jets (Football team)
National Football League.
Football > United States.
Summary: "Football is the country's most popular pastime, and yet most of what happens in today's NFL is a mystery. The New York Jets gave Nicholas Dawidoff a security code, a locker, [and] an office in the scouting department, and for an entire year he lived with the team. He has written a ... narrative about an emblematic NFL season that deepens the way we know the game"--
Physical Description: x, 485 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780316196796 (hbk.)
0316196797 (hbk.)
Author Notes: Nicholas Dawidoff is the author of four previous critically acclaimed books, including the bestselling The Catcher Was a Spy and The Crowd Sounds Happy . He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Civitella Ranieri Fellow, a Berlin Prize Fellow of the American Academy, and an Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton University, and is now a Branford Fellow at Yale University.

A Pulitzer Prize finalist (for The Fly Swatter ), Dawidoff is a contributor to the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, and Rolling Stone . He lives in New Haven, Connecticut, with his family.

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