The Crunch
Published on 16. February 2016
224 pages
978-1-5040-2954-4 (ISBN)
Description
"A wry, witty look at life with the Dallas Cowboys during the heyday of Tom Landry and Roger Staubach,
The Crunch shows the real life that makes legends and lacerates the Cowboys mechanistic corporate image, revealing a world that is both more and less than we expect, yet funnier than we could image." -Peter Gent, author of
North Dallas Forty
"More characters than War and Peace. More laughs than Laugh-In.... A pro football classic!" -Frank Luksa, The Dallas Morning News
"More characters than War and Peace. More laughs than Laugh-In.... A pro football classic!" -Frank Luksa, The Dallas Morning News
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Person
Pat Toomay played ten years in the NFL. He is the author of two books about pro football:
The Crunch, an irreverent look at the Dallas Cowboys during the Tom Landry-era, and the novel,
On Any Given Sunday. He has written for the
New York Times, the
Chicago Tribune, the
Nashville Tennessean,
Rolling Stone,
GQ,
ESPNs Page 2 and Salon.com, among other venues. His
ESPN columns broke readership records. An article about his involvement in Oliver Stone's football film was included in Houghton Mifflin's
Best American Sportswriting 2000 and has been added as postscript to the eBook edition of
On Any Given Sunday. Toomay lives and writes in Albuquerque, NM.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- 1. THE ORDEAL OF A ROOKIE
- 2. TRIPTYCHS
- 3. DYNASTIC DISSONANCE
- 4. RETAINING A PEDESTAL
- IMAGES
- NOTES
- Copyright Page
