Collision Low Crossers, Nicholas Dawidoff
Collision Low Crossers, Nicholas Dawidoff
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Collision Low Crossers
A Year Inside the Turbulent World of NFL Football

Author: Nicholas Dawidoff

Narrator: David de Vries

Unabridged: 16 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/19/2013

Synopsis

An unrivaled portrait of day-to-day life in the NFL: "Riveting . . . an instant classic" (New York Times Book Review).

By spending a year with the New York Jets, Nicholas Dawidoff entered a mysterious and private world with its own rituals and language. Equal parts Paper Lion, Moneyball, Friday Night Lights, and The Office, this absorbing, funny, and vivid narrative gets to the heart of a massive and stressful collective endeavor.

Here is football in many faces: the polarizing, brilliant, and hilarious head coach; the general manager, whose job is to support (and suppress) the irrepressible coach; the defensive coaches and their in-house rivals, the offensive coaches; and of course the players.

Wise safeties, brooding linebackers, high-strung cornerbacks, enthusiastic rookies, and a well-read nose tackle: they make up a strange and complex family. Dawidoff makes an emblematic NFL season come alive for fans and nonfans alike in a book about football that will forever change the way people watch and think about the sport.

About Nicholas Dawidoff

Nicholas Dawidoff is the critically acclaimed author of five books, including The Catcher Was a Spy and In the Country of a Country. He is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and has also been a Guggenheim, Berlin Prize, and Art for Justice Fellow.

Reviews

Goodreads review by victor on June 10, 2014

An excellent in depth look at the behind-the-scenes operations of the New York Jets during the 2011 season, with a concluding section that takes readers through the Tebow fiasco in the subsequent season. This was a little heavy on the Rex Ryan worship but seems balanced in the rest of its coverage.......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer-Eve on November 11, 2013

I won this book in a Goodreads Giveaway! I was very excited to share it with my Hunky Hubby! We actually read the book together and we both really enjoyed it. Although my hubby is the NFL guru in our household, I thought it would be fun to read together... and I was right (as always)! The author Nich......more

Goodreads review by Scott on March 25, 2014

A truly engrossing portrait of what life in the NFL is like. When first picking this book up, I thought it would be more from the players standpoint versus the coaches, but it truly was based from the coaches point of view. Seeing all the behind the scenes work that goes into an NFL team before the......more

Goodreads review by Lexi on April 26, 2025

Okay, let’s get this out of the way, I’m a pick me for this one. But in my defense what am I to do I’m just a girl who is trying to have a positive relationship with my dad and a love for the Steelers is basically the *only* thing we have in common!! (That’s not true he also has fire music recs when......more

Goodreads review by David on November 30, 2015

It's hard to write a thorough review of a book on here for several reasons. Most pressing currently is I'm on my phone and I would rather move on to my next book anyway. I thought this book deserved a few words though- both good and bad. On the plus side, I have watched hundreds of nfl football game......more

Quotes

Praise for The Crowd Sounds Happy:

"A beautiful portrait of a wounded family.... inquisitive and graceful." -- New York Times

"Marvelous... you'll simply want the story-his story-to continue on and on." -- Chicago Tribune

"Evocative.... The crackle of Dawidoff's writing and his unstinting...sensitivity make his...journey compelling." -- Washington Post

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