The GM: A Football life, a Final Season, and a Last Laugh
A LOOK AT THE NFL’S TOUGHEST JOB, A MAN WHO MASTERED IT, AND THE ART OF WINNING CHAMPIONSHIPS

With a New Chapter on the Giants’ Super Bowl Triumph

The GM is a chronicle of the NFL spanning the last three and a half decades, told through the eyes of legendary general manager Ernie Accorsi, a man who has dedicated his life to football—and whose unshakable faith in controversial quarterback Eli Manning was vindicated in the Giants’ dramatic come-from-behind victory in the 2008 Super Bowl. Filled with vivid anecdotes and storytelling that show how the pro game (and the league that showcases it) really works, The GM doesn’t just illuminate, it inspires with its portrait of a consummate football-personnel strategist who, over the course of decades, gave everything to the game he loved.
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The GM: A Football life, a Final Season, and a Last Laugh
A LOOK AT THE NFL’S TOUGHEST JOB, A MAN WHO MASTERED IT, AND THE ART OF WINNING CHAMPIONSHIPS

With a New Chapter on the Giants’ Super Bowl Triumph

The GM is a chronicle of the NFL spanning the last three and a half decades, told through the eyes of legendary general manager Ernie Accorsi, a man who has dedicated his life to football—and whose unshakable faith in controversial quarterback Eli Manning was vindicated in the Giants’ dramatic come-from-behind victory in the 2008 Super Bowl. Filled with vivid anecdotes and storytelling that show how the pro game (and the league that showcases it) really works, The GM doesn’t just illuminate, it inspires with its portrait of a consummate football-personnel strategist who, over the course of decades, gave everything to the game he loved.
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The GM: A Football life, a Final Season, and a Last Laugh

The GM: A Football life, a Final Season, and a Last Laugh

by Tom Callahan
The GM: A Football life, a Final Season, and a Last Laugh

The GM: A Football life, a Final Season, and a Last Laugh

by Tom Callahan

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Overview

A LOOK AT THE NFL’S TOUGHEST JOB, A MAN WHO MASTERED IT, AND THE ART OF WINNING CHAMPIONSHIPS

With a New Chapter on the Giants’ Super Bowl Triumph

The GM is a chronicle of the NFL spanning the last three and a half decades, told through the eyes of legendary general manager Ernie Accorsi, a man who has dedicated his life to football—and whose unshakable faith in controversial quarterback Eli Manning was vindicated in the Giants’ dramatic come-from-behind victory in the 2008 Super Bowl. Filled with vivid anecdotes and storytelling that show how the pro game (and the league that showcases it) really works, The GM doesn’t just illuminate, it inspires with its portrait of a consummate football-personnel strategist who, over the course of decades, gave everything to the game he loved.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780307394613
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 09/09/2008
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 7.98(w) x 10.88(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

TOM CALLAHAN, a former senior writer at Time magazine and sports columnist at the Washington Post, is the author of Johnny U, In Search of Tiger, and The Bases Were Loaded (and So Was I).

Table of Contents


Preface: The Essence of Sports     1
The Meadows Game     5
Manning VS. Manning     15
Red Licorice     29
Plaxico     39
The Baltimore Colts: Drafting John Elway     49
The Cleveland Browns: Stealing Bernie Kosar     65
The New York Giants: Signing Kerry Collins     81
Shock     93
The Draft     105
Ronnie     117
The Cap     125
Parcells     137
Off the Street     147
Reese     157
Goodbye, Tooms     167
Time-Out, Giants     175
"It's a Fabulous Game"     185
Titanic, Hindenburg, Joe Pisarcik...     189
K Balls     197
"Number Sixty-Nine is Reporting..."     205
Still Watching Football Games on TV     213
Double Safety Delayed Blitz     217
Real Life in the Sports World     225
"There's a Championship in This Room"     237
Countdown     247
Super Bowl XLII     259
Epilogue   Ernie Accorsi     275
Author's Note     280
Index     283
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