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Next Man Up : A Year Behind the Lines in Today's NFL
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Binding: Hardcover
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Label: Little, Brown, and Company
Manufacturer: Little, Brown, and Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 512
Publication Date: October 17, 2005
Publisher: Little, Brown, and Company
Studio: Little, Brown, and Company
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Editorial Review:
Despite-or perhaps because of-its immense popularity, the NFL remains one of the most secretive sports in America. John Feinstein goes behind the scenes of this closed sport as he takes his readers through an NFL season-all the ups and downs, the procession from 100 degree heat in training camp to frigid cold in January, and the week-to-week pressures faced by the coaches and players-in an incredibly illuminating and entertaining look at the most lucrative sport in America. NEXT MAN UP highlights the Baltimore Ravens, one of the most watched and dramatic NFL teams in recent years. Like many teams, the Ravens have faced extreme obstacles-in their case, players in prison, under indictment, and injured-but they+ve still managed to play at an extremely high level, winning their first Super Bowl in 2001 against the New York Giants. From the first strategy sessions of a new season to the last down of the final game, John Feinstein reveals the intensity, spirituality, and near life-or-death drama of professional football as it+s never been revealed before.
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Rating:  - Another great work by Feinstein
John Feinstein cronicals a full NFL season with the Baltimore Ravens franchise, from the pre-draft meetings, through the ups and downs of the regular season, to the heartbreak of cleaning out your lockers the Monday after the final loss of the season. John does a great job detailing the professional and personal interactions of the whole orginization, from the owners (the Modell family, which happened to be in the last season of majority ownership of the Ravens during the book) to the front office ... Read More
Rating:  - About as In-Depth As You're Going to Get on Life in the NFL.
Given the fact that the NFL is as secretive, controlling, and vindictive as a Mafia family, Next Man Up is about as in depth of a look into professional football as you are going to get. You have to remember that this is the league that pressured ESPN over the fictional series "Players," has a "uniform nazi," and is meglomanical when it comes to negotiating/awarding television contracts. Do you honestly think that John Feinstein is going to risk his future access to the league by giving us insight into ... Read More
Rating: - If you know Feinstein, this is just as you would expect..
I have now read 5 Feinstein books (Civil War, A March to Madness, A Good Walk Spoiled, The Open and this one)and they are all essentially in the same style. There is no technical discussion of the sports involved, Feinstein is more interested in the characters who play and coach the games and the environments they work in rather than how the games are played. This worked brilliantly in Civil War where the young men with no prospect of a professional career played for the honour of their service academies ... Read More
Rating:  - Dreadfully Tedious
How Feinstein managed to take an intriguing team (the Ravens) and an exciting subject (football), and turn it into an absolute snoozefest is a complete mystery. He is endlessly descriptive about the most uninteresting minutiae. He is also overwhelmingly apologetic regarding the less than stellar moral character of a lot of the Ravens. Avoid at all costs!
Rating:  - See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil
WebViking writes a wonderful review of this book. I really agree with his part that says what is missing from the book, you really get a very limited feel of the players and the administrative people.
What really bothered me about halfway through the book is the way Feinstein fawns over the people he is covering. Brian Billick is not arrogant, just misunderstood. Ray Lewis should be deified as the greatest middle linebacker to play the game. Feinstein repeatedly defends Ray Lewis and Jamal ... Read More
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