Instant Replay, Jerry Kramer
Instant Replay, Jerry Kramer
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Instant Replay
The Green Bay Diary of Jerry Kramer

Author: Jerry Kramer, Dick Schaap, Jonathan Yardley

Narrator: John Pruden

Unabridged: 8 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/01/2014

Synopsis

This classic sports book takes readers inside the 1967 season of the Green Bay Packers, following that storied team from training camp to their dramatic victory in Super Bowl II.Candid and often amusing, Jerry Kramer describes from a player's perspective a bygone era of sports, filled with blood, grit, and tears. No game better exemplifies this period than the classic "Ice Bowl" conference championship game between the Packers and the Dallas Cowboys, which Kramer, who made the crucial block in the climactic play, describes in thrilling detail. We also get a rare and insightful view of the Packers' legendary leader, coach Vince Lombardi.As vivid and engaging as it was when it was first published, Instant Replay is an irreplaceable reminder of the glory days of pro football.

About Jerry Kramer

Jerry Kramer was a right guard for the Green Bay Packers from 1958 to 1968. During his time with the team, the Packers won five NFL Championships and Super Bowls I and II. Kramer was inducted into the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame in 1977. He lives in Boise, Idaho. 

About Dick Schaap

Dick Schaap (1934–2002)—sportswriter, broadcaster, and author or coauthor of thirty-three books—reported for NBC Nightly News, the Today show, ABC World News Tonight, 20/20, and ESPN. He was the recipient of five Emmy Awards.

About John Pruden

John Pruden is an Earphones Award–winning audiobook narrator. His exposure to many people, places, and experiences throughout his life provides a deep creative well from which he draws his narrative and vocal characterizations. His narration of The Killing of Crazy Horse by Thomas Powers was chosen by the Washington Post as a Best Audiobook of 2010.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Steve

In its day, this was a very popular book. This was due in large part to a masterstroke in marketing -- it was packaged with a razor and sold in every drugstore in America. And of course as a sports-crazed kid, I had to see what it was all about. It was an interesting inside account. (In fact, when y......more

Goodreads review by Tom

Instant Replay appears on nearly every list of must-read books on the NFL. Written right before Jim Bouton’s classic Ball Four, Kramer doesn’t dish on teammates or tell you much about the underbelly of the NFL. What he does tell you is how physically hard the game is and why his Green Bay coach, Vin......more

Goodreads review by Ryan

“When the game is over, it is really just beginning”, this quote really stuck out to me because it’s true, once the game is over we begin the next one, that’s how football is. I really liked this book because it’s very inspiring to me, there truly are difficulties in being a football player, but thi......more

Goodreads review by Sam

I'm a Packer fan (shh, don't tell my dad) and I had to read this for school. My English teacher had fangirled over Jerry Kramer, sent him letters, and even got to speak with him on the phone, and she was all too proud to tell us about it. This book was an interesting recollection into the Lambeau lo......more

Quotes

“This was the book that started it all—for athletes telling their stories, for sportswriters going in depth, for great athletic tales being bound between the covers. Dick Schaap’s classic is timeless. Required reading for anyone who loves sports or sportswriting.” Mitch Albom, #1 New York Times bestselling author

“In my life as a writer and reader, there are only a few books that I’ve read over and over again for the sheer pleasure of the experience. Jerry Kramer’s Instant Replay is the only sports book among them. I loved it when I was a teenager, and I love it still today.” David Maraniss, Pulitzer Prize–winning author

“An unprecedented look into the gritty world of professional football…Still the gold standard of sports biographies.” Sports Illustrated

“The best behind-the-scenes glimpse of pro football ever produced.” New York Times

“An honest, hilarious, and insightful diary, with Lombardi alternately serving as the hero and the villain, the lovable leader and the soul-crushing ogre.” San Jose (CA) Mercury News

“A classic for its insights into the game and its people, [written] with wit and without scandal or obscenity…A landmark work.” Los Angeles Times

“This seminal, as-told-to diary…changed the way sports readers expected their heroes to sound. No more of this Grantland Rice purple prose. Schaap gave us the tough jock sounding like a real—and witty and introspective and profane—human being.” Chicago Sun-Times

“Groundbreaking…Candid…An uncommonly frank account.” Chicago Tribune

“[Kramer is] observant, honest, sensitive, and a bone-crusher at right guard.” Oregonian (Portland, OR)

“The gold standard for football memoirs…This modern sports classic is a smart, funny and literate diary of the Packers’ successful quest to become the first team to win back-to-back Super Bowl victories.” Cleveland Plain Dealer

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