"A raucous, smash-mouth, first-person takedown of the National
Football League." -Wall Street Journal The New York Times
bestseller From the #1 New York Times bestselling 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 into 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
buzz-kill 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.
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