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Rude Behavior
The good-ole-boy heroes of Dan Jenkins' Semi-Tough and Life Its Ownself are back in this exuberant tale of football and other excesses. Rude Behavior finds Billy Clyde Puckett, former New York Giant football god and later television announcer, as general manager and part-owner of a new NFL team, the West Texas Tornadoes. His old drinking partner-in-crime and favorite receiver, Shake Tiller, has written a bestselling book, The Average Man's History of the World, and his nearly perfect wife, Barbara Jane, is in Hollywood, making a movie with Shake, who happens to be her old flame. Meanwhile, Billy Clyde's father-in-law, Big Ed Bookman, who is more Texas than oil and is majority owner of the Tornadoes, is trying to lure the old Giants coach, T.J. Lambert, to run his new team. And Billy Clyde has met a bartender named Kelly Sue Woodley, a wiseass beauty who works at a joint called "He Ain't Here" and causes some major marital discord.
All these folks are back to take part in some serious fun, which in Jenkinsland means football, plenty of "young scotches," athletic exploits on the field and in the bedroom, a lot of riffs about the stupidity of "gubmint reg-you-layshuns," and the sublime beauty of country music. Hilarious, stubbornly retrograde, and laced with affection for everything Texas football stands for, Rude Behavior is vintage Dan Jenkins.
All these folks are back to take part in some serious fun, which in Jenkinsland means football, plenty of "young scotches," athletic exploits on the field and in the bedroom, a lot of riffs about the stupidity of "gubmint reg-you-layshuns," and the sublime beauty of country music. Hilarious, stubbornly retrograde, and laced with affection for everything Texas football stands for, Rude Behavior is vintage Dan Jenkins.
432 pages, Hardcover
First published September 15, 1998
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About the author
Dan Jenkins
79 books52 followersDan Jenkins was an American author and sportswriter, most notably for Sports Illustrated.
Jenkins was born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas, where he attended R.L. Paschal High School and Texas Christian University (TCU), where he played on the varsity golf team. Jenkins worked for many publications including the Fort Worth Press, Dallas Times Herald, Playboy, and Sports Illustrated. In 1985 he retired from Sports Illustrated and began writing books full-time and maintained a monthly column in Golf Digest magazine.
Larry King called Jenkins "the quintessential Sports Illustrated writer" and "the best sportswriter in America." Jenkins authored numerous works and over 500 articles for Sports Illustrated. In 1972, Jenkins wrote his first novel, Semi-Tough.
His daughter, Sally Jenkins, is a sports columnist for the Washington Post.
Jenkins was born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas, where he attended R.L. Paschal High School and Texas Christian University (TCU), where he played on the varsity golf team. Jenkins worked for many publications including the Fort Worth Press, Dallas Times Herald, Playboy, and Sports Illustrated. In 1985 he retired from Sports Illustrated and began writing books full-time and maintained a monthly column in Golf Digest magazine.
Larry King called Jenkins "the quintessential Sports Illustrated writer" and "the best sportswriter in America." Jenkins authored numerous works and over 500 articles for Sports Illustrated. In 1972, Jenkins wrote his first novel, Semi-Tough.
His daughter, Sally Jenkins, is a sports columnist for the Washington Post.
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March 17, 2019
I picked this up a few days after Mr. Jenkins passed away. It's the further story of Billy Clyde Puckett and them. It's very funny and stridently non-PC. I don't know how long it's been since the movie 'Semi-Tough' came out, but I still could see Burt Reynolds as Billy Clyde. The ending was maybe a little bit predictable, but by that point who cares. Dan Jenkins is a writer that will be truly missed.
August 10, 2020
Great football story
This is another explosively funny Dan Jenkins book. We all will miss him. Today no one would be able to be so politically incorrect!
This is another explosively funny Dan Jenkins book. We all will miss him. Today no one would be able to be so politically incorrect!
November 1, 2023
Wow! It's been a while since I read "Semi Tough, which I thoroughly enjoyed, and the late Dan Jenkins did it again...Definitely, no WOKE filter here...I really doubt, like Mel Brooks' movies or Zucker-Abrams-Zucker movies, "Rude Behavior" could be published in today's climate and we are a sorrier society because of it...The politically incorrect humor is just laugh-out-loud, explosively funny...We catch up to Billy Clyde Puckett and Shake Tiller in their post-football lives as Billy Clyde pursues NFL ownership...LOVED IT!!!
July 20, 2017
This is a reread of Jenkins's follow-up to semi tough. Not as good as the first, but still entertaining
October 27, 2019
Another Billy Clyde Puckett parody of football, life, America.
July 30, 2021
Read in 1998. Exuberant tale of football and other excesses.
June 11, 2022
Read 80 pages. Crap terminology, slow to get to whatever plot eventually emerges.
August 19, 2008
The third in the Semi-Tough trilogy - horrible, horrible, horrible. Re-read "Life Its Ownself" again instead.
June 25, 2011
I wanted a laugh. The book delivered.
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April 11, 2012NFL expansion: Hawaii vs Mexico City vs London vs West Texas
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February 9, 2012One of the funniest books ever. Political correct is totally forgotten.
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