Big Game
The NFL in Dangerous Times
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Narrateur(s):
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Joe Barrett
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Auteur(s):
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Mark Leibovich
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The New York Times best seller!
From the number one New York Times best-selling author of This Town, an equally merciless probing of America's biggest cultural force, pro football, at a moment of peak success and high anxiety
Like millions of Americans, Mark Leibovich has spent more of his life tuned in to pro football than he'd care to admit. Being a lifelong New England Patriots fan meant growing up on a steady diet of lovable loserdom. That is until the Tom Brady/Bill Belichick era made the Pats the most ruthlessly efficient and polarizing sports dynasty of the modern NFL, and its fans the most irritating in all of Pigskin America. Leibovich kept his obsession quiet, making a nice career for himself covering that other playground for rich and overgrown children, American politics. Still, every now and then Leibovich would reach out to Tom Brady to gauge his willingness to subject himself to a profile. He figured that the chances of Brady agreeing were a Hail Mary at best, but Brady returned Mark's call in summer 2014 and kept on returning his calls through epic Patriots Super Bowl victory and defeat, and a scandal involving Brady - Deflategate - whose grip on sports media was as profound as its true significance was ridiculous.
So began a four-year odyssey that took Mark Leibovich deeper inside the NFL than anyone has gone before. From the owners' meeting to the draft to the sidelines of crucial games, he takes in the show at the elbow of everyone from Brady to big-name owners to the cordially despised NFL commissioner, Roger Goodell. Ultimately, Big Game is a chronicle of "peak football" - the high point of the sport's economic success and cultural dominance but also the time when the dark side began to show. It is an era of explosive revenue growth but also one of creeping existential fear. Players have long joked that NFL stands for "not for long", but as the true impact of concussions becomes inescapable background noise, it's increasingly difficult to enjoy the simple glory of football without the buzzkill of its obvious consequences.
And that was before Donald Trump. In 2016, Mark's day job caught up with him, and the NFL slammed headlong into America's culture wars. Big Game is a journey through an epic storm. Through it all, Leibovich always keeps one eye on Tom Brady and his beloved Patriots, through to the 2018 Super Bowl. Pro football, this hilarious and enthralling book proves, may not be the sport America needs, but it is most definitely the sport we deserve.
One of Mother Jones’ Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2018
©2018 Mark Leibovich (P)2018 Penguin AudioCe que les critiques en disent
"A gossipy, insightful and wickedly entertaining journey through the N.F.L. sausage factory...a sparkling narrative.” (The New York Times)
“A raucous, smash-mouth, first-person takedown of the National Football League, it is also the story of an aging fanboy whose reportorial eye and ear are far too acute to ignore what’s wrong with the game and the team he loves.... Mr. Leibovich understands that humor - bruising, black-and-blue humor - is the best way to attack the self-seriousness and grandiosity of the NFL. It works as well for him as it did for his comically insurgent predecessors - Dan Jenkins in Semi-Tough and Peter Gent in North Dallas Forty - making Big Game an instant classic in the pigskin oeuvre.” (Wall Street Journal)
“What we have here are 349 unflinching pages detailing the NFL’s rampant boobery.... It probably took a reporter like Leibovich to write a historic book like this. A top-flight journalist who’d gorged on a product for decades parachutes into the factory to see exactly how the product is made and who’s making it. The findings are mind-numbing, stomach-turning, and stupefying. But the product is still so delicious.” (NBCSports.com)
“The high point of any monster movie, whether you’re talking 'King Kong' or 'Jurassic Park', comes at the moment when you finally get a full view of the giant beast. You’ve caught a glimpse or two, heard a roar in the distance, but when you finally see the monster’s full immensity, it’s a sight to behold...and you wonder how in the hell your little heroes are going to survive its fury. Big Game: The NFL in Dangerous Times, an exceptional new behind-the-scenes book by Mark Leibovich, is a monster movie disguised as investigative journalism. Running from 2014 right on up to this year, Leibovich’s narrative presents the NFL’s owners and commissioner in all their bumbling, well-meaning, self-serving, self-satisfied glory...and shows in high definition how unprepared they were for the monster that stomped in to demolish everything they hold dear.” (Yahoo Sports)
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Au global4 out of 5 stars
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Performance4 out of 5 stars
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Histoire4 out of 5 stars
- Tom G
- 2019-02-05
Unique and revealing, but not brilliant
This book reads like a cuttingly sarcastic gossip columnist’s memoir, but is a must read for NFL fans for the way it pulls back the curtain on a fairly secretive league and ownership circle. Leibovich can be somewhat cruel at times, but we forgive him as the victims of his wit are more often than not witless billionaires and himself.
The narrator is very good, but sounds significantly different from the younger author, which does give a false impression of his persona.
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