Paper lion
Subtitle: confessions of a last-string quarterback
By: George Plimpton ; foreword by Nicholas Dawidoff
Edition: First Little, Brown edition.
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780316284509
Subjects: Football players; Detroit Lions (Football team); Biography
Description: George Plimpton was perhaps best known for PAPER LION, the book that set the bar for participatory sports journalism. With his characteristic wit, Plimpton recounts his experiences in talking his way into training camp with the Detroit Lions, practicing with the team, and taking snaps behind center. His breezy style captures the pressures and tensions rookies confront, the hijinks that pervade when sixty high-strung guys live together in close quarters, and a host of football rites and rituals. One of the funniest and most insightful books ever written on football, PAPER LION is a classic look at the gridiron game and a book The Wall Street Journal calls "a continuous feast...The best book ever about football--or anything!" --Amazon.com.