Collision low crossers
Subtitle: a year inside the turbulent world of NFL football
By: Nicholas Dawidoff
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 485
ISBN-13: 9780316196796
Subjects: Football; National Football League; New York Jets (Football team)
Other titles: Collision lowcrossers
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Before.; title: Prologue: a football metabolism --; title: Combine --; title: Brothers --; title: Tape don't lie --; title: An inexact science --; title: The sound of silence --; title: The game face is on -- -- During.; title: Training camp --; title: Dime spike 1 (Vegas) --; title: The world changes --; title: Dispatches from a losing streak --; title: Softness --; title: Revis Island --; title: Football is my father -- -- After.; title: Rex in winter.