Glory game gifford

As he chronicles his distinguished career in the game, from high school to college to the NBA, he punctuates that story with a parallel one that chronicles at each juncture the injuries he suffered and overcame until he could no longer play, eventually turning to a successful broadcasting career which helped his stuttering problem.

Effectively sobering. Suffice it to say that Pop Warner parents will want to armor their kids from head to toe upon reading A maddening, well-constructed tale of medical discovery and corporate coverup, set in morgues, laboratories, courtrooms, and football fields. The student did not surpass the teacher in flashiness, but Omalu was a rock star all his own in studying the brain to determine a cause of death. Undersized, tough, a big, burly white guy—a Pittsburgh kind of guy—the heart of the best team in history.

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These are minor issues though and should not act as deterrents from reading it. On the surface this is a very specific book about one specific game. However, it is larger than that. It is about a time and a feeling in history.

I find it difficult to believe that any football fan wouldn't get something from it. I recommend it to NFL fans and historians of the game. Jun 04, Ken rated it it was amazing. The detail of NYC nightlife and the blend of personalities of both teams were great insights for fans of the time. The game played in featured the countries two biggest stars and undefeated college teams. Lew Alcindor and Elvin Hayes put on a show that became the college basketball, " Game of the Century".

Nascar had the same type of TV coverage that took it from a local southern sport to a national audience with live national coverage of the Daytona All it takes is a great event and a little TV coverage to send an event into infamy. I am very fortunate to have seen these and many other great events in my life, but it's really great to be able to read first-hand accounts like The Glory Game by the guys who actually participated in the events. I enjoyed hearing about what life was like for athletes back then, but I think I would have enjoyed the actual game descriptions better if I were a bigger football fan!

Jan 08, Mike rated it really liked it. Surprisingly good book -- really shows the difference between pro football "then and now". Back when men were men. Great read, in that it talks about the game in the 50's while describing the first "great" game in history, the '58 Championship game.

Makes one yearn for a game that once was. Jul 29, This is V! A beautiful account of the football season , when money dident matter. Dec 06, Reed Johnson rated it really liked it. This was fun. As I read the book I watched the game on YouTube.

Nov 16, Dietrich rated it really liked it. Gifford also provides fascinating context which helps enrich the story. The act of researching this book allowed Gifford to learn and relate to the reader facts and details of the lives of those involved with the game as the years have passed.

This makes for interesting, though often sad, reading. The preparation of the book also gave the surviving members of the game a chance to reconnect, and as Gifford makes clear, whether Colt or Giant, they all consider themselves teammates now because they shared in something so extraordinary.

Though I enjoyed this book as a whole, there were some weak points. For instance, Gifford really takes a lot of cheap shots at Jim Lee Howell, the head coach for the Giants at the time.

I could tell that Gifford had an ax to grind long before he eventually admitted to a longstanding grudge against Howell that was never forgiven. Lighten up, Frank! A lot of water has passed under the bridge since Howell chewed you out in front of your teammates in !

Gifford himself provides the facts that to the outside observer make Landry in appear as something of a miracle worker. On the man team roster, we learn that only 12 or 13 Giants were defensive players! Despite some weaknesses, however, The Glory Game is still worth the plunge. Jun 01, John Theofanis rated it it was amazing. Frank Gifford was a hero of mythological proportions in the late s. Frank played running back for the New York Giants. New York has a way of creating legends, mythologizing sports stars and gilding them with Greek-godlike attributes.

Frank fit the bill. He had the looks. Frank ran gracefully as a running back as the New York Giants football team, the tam that found its identity in hallowed Yankee Stadium. As a ten year old kid I liked the guy, number 16 on his uniform, and he embodied the tr Frank Gifford was a hero of mythological proportions in the late s. As a ten year old kid I liked the guy, number 16 on his uniform, and he embodied the traits we liked in our Fifties heroes-- modesty, hard work and a nose for victory.

Frank outlines his exploits and the hard scrabble early days of the New York football team in The Glory Game, his book about the NFL championship game of He never deviates from his modest temperament across the pages of The Glory Game.

Gifford, ever the ambassador of goodwill demonstrates equal affection for his teammates guys like Sam Huff and Charlie Conerly and for the Baltimore Colts, the opponents, a team that included Johnny Unitas, Gino Marchetti and Raymond Berry.

Gifford cannot claim to be the last of the great white running backs-- that was my term. Jim Taylor and Paul Hornung achieved great running statistics for the Green Bay Packers in the season, after Gifford's glory years had passed. And Jim Brown symbolized the future of football. Jim Brown anticipated the arrival of the great African-American running back. Jim Brown, Lenny Moore and Bobby Mitchell, the early black stars, jump out from the cold, hard statistics on rushing yards as the future of pro football.

The sport had to accommodate the unquestioned superiority of the African-American running back, for sports by definition are a level playing field. But Gifford had a certain aura.

He as a King of New York in the ss and beyond. He straddled the electronic era, the era of television and football's emergence as the TV sport par excellence. Both guys were funny and they needed the gentler spirit of Frank Gifford to class up the joint.

Gifford got in trouble with sex scandal, a tabloid affair with buxom Suzen Johnson in His Monday Night Football days were numbered. Frank partook of the electronic landscape for gossip long before TMZ made it an art form. And even that hotel room setup adds to the luster. Suzen did a Playboy spread and you had to sympathize with Frank's fall to temptation. Kathie Lee Gifford, Frank's wife and a powerful figure in daytime TV, struggled to keep the marriage to Frank going despite the massive media circus and the marriage continues to the present day.

Frank is now 83 years old. But Frank should not be forgotten. The son of an oilfield worker, Gifford did not have the grades to get accepted to USC. He eventually made it there. His strong delivery as a TV announcer proves he had no lack of intelligence. Gifford had all the right stuff, really proved himself a natural for the Big Apple spotlight. His book, The Glory Game, continues in the vein of grace and modesty.

He acknowledges David Halberstram would have been the man to capture the NFL championship game and all of the sociological implications-- the integration of American life through television and the rise of Frank's favorite sport.

Halberstram died in a car accident while pursuing the subject of football's rise from the championship game. But Frank's version makes a damn fine book, smooth and effortless as a crafty running back cutting through the line. Oct 25, Kyle Winston rated it it was amazing. The New York Giants-Baltimore Colts National Football League Championship game is considered to be "the Greatest game ever played", being the first professional football game in the championship to go into sudden death overtime.

Hosted in Yankee Stadium, it housed more that 64, fans that went on to watch the Colts beat the Giants Frank Gifford writes this book, with help from sports writes Peter Richmond, as a halfback from the Giants who started and played in that game. Gifford The New York Giants-Baltimore Colts National Football League Championship game is considered to be "the Greatest game ever played", being the first professional football game in the championship to go into sudden death overtime.

Gifford takes the game and expands it beyond football, he goes on to explain what New York was like in those days, and what is was like playing football in New York City. Also he compares how people played back then, to how they play today, and uses examples such as celebrations and small things like when to call timeouts, spiking the ball, and penalty rules.

This book is ironic at times, because Gifford explains that he felt the game did not get interesting or that exciting until the fourth quarter, and overtime of course. Gifford also goes on to explain how and why the Colts deserved to win that game, and part of the reason the Giants lost was due to Gifford's two lost fumbles, that proved crucial that lead to Baltimore's scores.

In the end, the author and his team lost of course, but because of what it consisted of, the time it was in, and the way people acted back then is what makes this game in this book, "The greatest game ever played".

This novel does a great job of not only explaining what went on that day of December 28, beyond the game, as well as explaining the players that Frank Gifford played with.

The only fault with this novel, if it could even ever be considered that is the fact that Gifford has a pretty big bias in regards on how he tells the game and story, but how can he not because he played in that game and represented the New York Giants. This serves as a small problem though because it is difficult to find a non-fiction novel or any type of story that does not have a bias, but it is a bias that proves the point it intends to convey.

Lastly, with the help of Peter Richmond, Frank Gifford proves that in his eyes this was a great game and the way he describes it reassures his position. Apparently, Gifford was not the first player on that New York Giants team that had an idea to write about it.

Due to particular events and circumstances, Frank Gifford took over that idea and expressed their point.