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The Code: Football's Unwritten Rules and Its Ignore-At-Your-Own-Risk Code of Honor
Football is a sport steeped in a culture of violence, intimidation, and brutality, but players have learned to navigate through the minefield of its physical demands by adhering to an honor code of sportsmanship known simply as "the code." As mysterious as it is sacred, the code is an unwritten set of rules that has been handed down from generation to generation....more
Hardcover, 256 pages
Published
August 1st 2009
by Triumph Books
(first published 2009)
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The author states early in the book that he is going to let the players/coaches/referees speak for themselves. This is fine, but a LITTLE editing would have helped. The entire book was basically one- or two-paragraph quotes loosely arranged into chapters. The redundancy was out of control. If the author had cut out all the redundant quotes he would probably have reduced this book to a pamphlet. The chapter on kickers seemed the most tedious. There were 4 or 5 quotes in a row that said almost exc...more
I believe this book is a great read for older football fanatics!!! it covers many of the NFL's and Canadian Football League's [CFL:] darkest secrets from secrets about steroids to locker rooms. It also interviews some of footballs oldest iron men. Its a true page turner and it blows your mind away from the players confessions to coaches pep talks... I would recomend this book to anyone. (This is not Sean it is Dylan)
Unlike the baseball version of 'The Code', this book only deals with the football code in a few chapters. Other chapters deal with football issues, but not with the unwritten rules that is supposed to be the foundation of the book. It also contains the same annoying sidebars that make continuity difficult. And the editing was just piss poor. There were so many grammatical errors that I had a very hard time understanding if the good was actually read through. If it was, the person responsible nee...more
Pretty good book about the unwritten rules of the NFL.
Interesting take on the so-called "unspoken" rules and codes of football. Bernstein isn't the best author, though, and too many times he simply quotes at length from interviews and sources instead of crafting a coherent narrative, so there ends up being a lot of repetition. Still a good read if you're interested in the subject.
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