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Boys Will Be Boys: The Glory Days And Party Nights Of The Dallas Cowboys Dynasty (2008)

by Jeff Pearlman(Favorite Author)

3.97 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0061256803 (ISBN13: 9780061256806)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Harper

review 1: How anyone could be proud of being a Cowboys fan during this era, after reading this book, is beyond me. I think the 535 elected officials in Washington D.C. might be more ethical than this team, including the owner, and that is really saying something. When a politician beats you out on the moral front you have a real problem.The book is well written and an enjoyable read. Especially considering that I don't normally enjoy tabloid style writings. This book was very informative and gives the reader a lot of insight into what has to be one of the most shameful teams in NFL history.Overall I gave this book a 7.1 under the following categories. Interesting = 8.25, Captivating = 7.77, Informative = 9.25, Characters = 1, and Insight = 9.25
review 2: Charles Haley h... moreas a gigantic penis. And he likes to slap people with it. This is one of the many entertaining anecdotes you will learn if you read this book. It is a well-told, often gripping look at the wild and strange personalities that somehow combined for three super bowls on the 90's Dallas Cowboys. Pearlman paints an interesting picture of how success and fame can tear down a franchise, especially one with egos as large as this particular team. It is also incredible to learn what rich and famous athletes can get away with. For every headline on espn.com about athlete X getting caught with a prostitute, or drugs, or both, it seems there are probably hundreds more doing the same thing but not getting caught.Pearlman is a pretty solid writer - but I had two minor gripes. One, his favorite kind of sentence is a one paragraph sentence.Like this one.Or this one.And he seems to think this adds immensely to the drama of his story, so he employs this tactic probably half-a-dozen times per chapter. Well, Jeff, you may think that makes the story more exciting.It doesn't.Also, this is sort of a football technicality gripe - but Pearlman talks about the decadent ways that brought down America's team, and tries to back this up with what happened in the on field action. Overall, he's probably right, the lack of eventually lead to this team's demise. But Pearlman wants this downfall to match up a little too neatly with the off the field drama he is writing about. So he'll write something like, "With Newton's arrest, the distraught Cowboys struggled to a 17-3 win over the lowly Cardinals." And I'm like, 17-3 sounds like a pretty solid win, Jeff.Anyways, I'm picking nits. This was breezy, juicy, sports reading about a team etched in the consciousness of any football fan. Easily 3 star worthy. Charles Haley has a big penis. less

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