On December 28, 1958, the New York Giants and Baltimore Colts met under the lights of Yankee Stadium for the American NFL Championship game. Played in front of sixty-four thousand fans and millions of television viewers around the country, the game would be remembered as the greatest in football history.
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. An estimated forty-five million viewers – at that time the largest crowd to have ever watched a football game – tuned in to see what would become the first sudden-death contest in NFL history. It was a battle of the league's best offense – the Colts -versus its best defense – the Giants. And it was a contest between the blue-collar Baltimore team versus the glamour boys of the Giants squad.
The Best Game Ever is a brilliant portrait of how a single game changed the history of American sport and is destined to become a classic.
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. An estimated forty-five million viewers – at that time the largest crowd to have ever watched a football game – tuned in to see what would become the first sudden-death contest in NFL history. It was a battle of the league's best offense – the Colts -versus its best defense – the Giants. And it was a contest between the blue-collar Baltimore team versus the glamour boys of the Giants squad.
The Best Game Ever is a brilliant portrait of how a single game changed the history of American sport and is destined to become a classic.
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Mark Bowden is the bestselling author of Killing Pablo (Atlantic 2002), Finders Keepers (Atlantic 2003), Guests of the Ayatollah (Atlantic 2006) and Black Hawk Down, which was made into a successful film by Ridley Scott. Guests of the Ayatollah is his latest book. He is a national correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly.
Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 320 ● ISBN 9780857899118 ● File size 3.2 MB ● Publisher Atlantic Books ● City London ● Country GB ● Published 2012 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5211343 ● Copy protection Social DRM
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