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If you're interested, I liked David Halberstam's book on Bill Belichick. It is most regrettable that Halberstam's not around anymore to put out a updated edition that covers the Patriots "p*rf*ct season." I'd like to see what information Halberstam would uncover about that whole videotaping thing from the Jets game this year, and whether it was something that helped the Pats all along. I didn't buy into the idea it was a serious matter until I started hearing that the Eagles defensive players think it may have been used against them in the second half of Super Bowl XXXIX.
Best football book I ever read is the David Maraniss biography of Vince Lombardi. The title is WHEN PRIDE STILL MATTERED. A superb biography, one of my favorites.
Haven't read any of those. Thanks for the suggestions!
I'm not sure I could spend enough time in Bill Belichick's company, much as I admire his accomplishments. Even with Halberstam running interference, watching B. try to be a person, with regular feelings and desires, can be painful.
I've never heard of Jenkins or Semi-Tough. Will research.
I'm not sure I could spend enough time in Bill Belichick's company, much as I admire his accomplishments. Even with Halberstam running interference, watching B. try to be a person, with regular feelings and desires, can be painful.
I've never heard of Jenkins or Semi-Tough. Will research.

I find the Patriot hating so amusing, but then you New Yorkers are good with the Beantown derision, as a result of Yanks-Sox and then Mets-Sox clashes. I'm it's not hard to transfer those feelings to football.
Having gone to school in Boston, I find it so amusing that the rest of the country views the Pats with such disdain as well. As an upstate New Yorkers by birth and childhood and thus a Buffalo Bills fan I'm pretty neutral on hating most pro football sports teams (except the detestable Cowboys - may they lose lose lose this weekend!). But the Pats hate these days is really something else.
I recall that back in the early 90's the Patriots were definitely a team #3 in a four team town (way behind Red Sox and Celtics, neck and neck with Bruins) and they weren't that far from being dead last in rooting interest and newspaper coverage. The rest of the country barely knew they existed. How things have changed.

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Good on you for mentioning North Dallas Forty. I had forgotten that one.

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The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game (other topics)End Zone (other topics)
The nonfiction seems a lot better, like The Blind Side. At least there's more of it. Or is there? Suggestions?