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Collision Low Crossers: A Year Inside the Turbulent World of NFL Football
Collision Low Crossers A Year Inside the Turbulent World of NFL Football Author:Nicholas Dawidoff, Nicholas Dawidoff The definitive portrait of professional football's hidden world, as told by the writer who saw it all firsthand. — Football is the country's most popular pastime, and yet most of what happens in today's NFL is a mystery. The New York Jets gave Nicholas Dawidoff a security code, a locker, an office in the scouting department, and for an entire yea... more »r he lived with the team. He has written a vivid, funny, and moving narrative about an emblamatic NFL season that deepens the way we know the game.
In COLLISION LOW CROSSERS, Dawidoff introduces us to a memorable cast of characters: brilliant, polarizing head coach Rex Ryan; the defensive coaches and their offensive counterparts and rivals; the best defensive player in football, Darrelle Revis, and the young, whimsical, and erratic quarterback Mark Sanchez; and the brotherhood of American characters who come together to form a team.
Here finally is the definitive work on the elusive game, a story that is part Paper Lion and part Moneyball, part Deliverance and part The Office.« less