Bringing the Heat by Mark Bowden
Bringing the Heat Mark Bowden
Page: 512
ISBN: 9780871137722
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
They are one of the superb and distinctive teams of the National Football League - roguish, free-swinging, fiercely competitive - a collection of exceptional characters who play with abandon. They are the Philadelphia Eagles, one of professional football's great franchises. In Bringing the Heat Mark Bowden gets deep inside Gang Green - inside a football team, both on and off the field, as no writer has done before. By the end of 1991, the Eagles were a frustrated bunch. They hadn't even made the play-offs - after losing in the first round three years in a row - and they were having to get along without Buddy Ryan, the coach who had been fired after bringing them to the brink of greatness. Under the new head coach, Richie Kotite, the tightly knit defensive squad remained Buddy's boys, disgruntled and proud, determined to prove that the Super Bowl can be won by peerless, unglamorous defensive play. Then, just one week before 1992 preseason workouts were to begin, star defensive lineman Jerome Brown slammed his Corvette into a Florida palm tree, flipped, and died. His death was devastating to his teammates - he had lived his life convinced that he was indestructible, and everyone had believed him. Now the Eagles were on a mission: to honor Jerome, vindicate Buddy, and magnify the soul of professional football. This is the story of that season and its aftermath. Rowdy and hilarious, Bowden's account probes the essences of America's most popular spectator sport - the training camps and player drafts, the tensions between coaches and jocks, the often stormy relationships between athletes and their wives/girlfriends, the greed, the ever-present matter of race - all the drama and pressure that suffuse the business, which never stops being a game, of professional football. Bowden spares us none of the flagrantly obnoxious and reckless behavior of a group of men who are paid handsomely to beat each other up, and who believe fervently in the glory of what they do. He give
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