The Best Game Ever: Giants vs. Colts, 1958, and the Birth of the Modern NFL | 
 enlarge | Author: Mark Bowden
Creator: Phil Gigante
Publisher: Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged
Category: Book
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Format: Audiobook, Cd, Unabridged
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Edition: Unabridged
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Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 5.1 x 1.4
ISBN: 1423367928
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9781423367925
ASIN: 1423367928
Publication Date: May 12, 2008
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Product Description
On December 28, 1958, the New York Giants and Baltimore Colts met under the lights of Yankee Stadium for that season?s NFL Championship game. Football, growing in popularity amid America?s post-war economic boom, was still greatly over-shadowed by the country?s favored pastime ? baseball ? but the 1958 championship proved to be the turning point for pro football.
On the field and roaming the sidelines were seventeen future Hall of Famers, including Colts stars Johnny Unitas, Raymond Berry, and Gino Marchetti, and Giants greats Frank Gifford, Sam Huff, and assistant coaches Vince Lombardi and Tom Landry.
Played on a freezing Sunday evening in front of 64,000 fans and an estimated forty-five million television viewers around the country - at that time the largest crowd to have ever watched a football game - the championship would become the first sudden-death contest in NFL history. With two minutes left in regulation, Baltimore had possession deep in its own territory, and the ball in the hands of the still unproven quarterback Johnny Unitas.
The Best Game Ever is a brilliant portrait of how a single game changed the history of American sports. Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the championship, it is destined to be a sports classic.
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 one for the ages... July 22, 2008
Bowden always delivers. This is a quick read of the '58 NFL Championship Game. It's like watching a documentary of the game on ESPN Classic. A little game action then switch to a little background on some of the colorful personalities of the GIANTS or COLTS. All in all it delivers and entertains. I'm too young to have seen the game but I could picture my dad(a big Colts fan) cheering on Johnny Unitas! The names of the players, owners and coaches are legendary, all in all 17 of them from this game would make the NFL Hall of Fame. I really enjoyed some of the locker room stories between the players no doubt the stories have grown in stature over the years as has this game and the NFL. Highly recommended.
 Excellent insight. July 10, 2008
Fine writing, excellent content, interesting insight by Bowden make the book a great read for all fans of football interested in the most exciting game of football ever played, but an especially great read for fans of the old Baltimore Colts.
The Best Game Ever lives up to the hype July 10, 2008
The Best Game Ever brought back to life many of the characters I grew up watching on TV when I was a young boy, Johnny Unitas, Raymond Berry, Frank Gifford, Vince Lombardi, Tom Landry, the list goes on. The book is as compelling as I'm sure the game must have been and after reading it you come away with a better appreciation of the roots of America's new favorite pass-time. Highly recommended!
The definitive account July 8, 2008
Mark Bowden has crafted a terrific narrative of the THE GAME, the one that changed everything. He places the weight and the credit where it belongs and explains how each major event unfolded. Mainly he provides background and insight into a group of extraordinary men and how everything came together at just exactly the right moment and in exactly the right place. He contrasts the glamorous, endorsement contract lives of many of the Giant players with the hardscrabble, sooty backwater of neighborhood Baltimore where the Colts lived and worked.
He explains the pivotal plays in the game and how early unsuccessful plays actually set up later successes. He describes the crowd, a significant part of which rooted for the Colts. Finally, he covers the personalities behind the legends throughout the book, delving into the background of each critical player and coach, right down to Frank Gifford's whining which continues to this day. This is a must read for anyone interested in how the NFL came to be.
The Greatest book on The Greatest Game Ever Played June 22, 2008
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Mark Bowden has written a brillant book on the Giants VS Colts,1958 Championship game. Bowden brings the game and the inpact it had on the sport into perfect harmony. His insight into the meaning of the game beyond the score brings greater understanding of today's billion dollar NFL brand. Whether your a football fan or a fan of American culture Bowden's work is a remarkable merging of the the two. Enjoy the read.
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