Description
A battered former football star reinvents himself as a television sports commentator, trading the playing field for the glossy, absurd world of network executives, celebrity athletes, and professional football politics. As his marriage, career, and access to the social elites of Texas and New York collide, he navigates a year filled with romance, hard drinking, newsroom rivalries, padded expense accounts, and questionable judgment. With the same irreverent energy that made his sports writing famous, the author skewers the NFL, the media, sports celebrity, television culture, and the vanities of 1980s America. Wildly comic and unapologetically profane, the novel is a sharp satire of the institutions and personalities surrounding the national obsession with football.
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paperback
Simon and Schuster
Published Jan 1, 1991
353 pages
ISBN: 9780671683320
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Details
First Published
1991
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for You Gotta Play Hurt by Dan Jenkins.