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How Football Explains America (2008)

by Sal Paolantonio(Favorite Author)

3.19 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1600780466 (ISBN13: 9781600780462)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Triumph Books

review 1: How Football Explains AmericaRead and You’ll Find Out Think of what explains you. Now think of what explains America, what about football. How Football Explains America is a book written by Sal Paolantonio. The genre of this book is short stories. That means that it has no main characters or any one particular setting. My rating of this book would be three out of five stars. I thought that there were a lot of stories, but I would have liked more detail about the stories. This book tells you how football explains lots of things such as the 60’s, West Point and even all of us. It takes you through when football was struggling to develop as a sport to now when it is one of the most popular sports in America. How Football Explains America is a good book because it is infor... moremative has a lot of stories and also has a wide range of stories. How Football Explains America is a good book because it is very enlightening. It has a lot of cool and random facts all throughout the book. One of them is on (p.93) “Belichick was fined $500,000. And the team was fined another $250,000 dollars” The Patriots organization was fined this much money because they had been accused of stealing plays from other teams. I remember when I found out about this I knew they would get fined, but I did not think it would be nearly as bad as it was. I thought that was a very interesting fact about football. That was just one of the many facts that there were in this book. That was just one of the many cool facts in this book. How Football Explains America is also a good book because it has a wide range of stories. The stories range from how football explains America to how football explains Manifest Destiny. One of my favorite stories is how football explains all of us. It talks about a solder in Iraq who is risking his life every day, but is a die-hard Giants fan. I thought that was a very cool story. Another story talks about how football originated and how football became what it is today. The final reason why How Football Explains America is a good book is because it has a lot of stories that appeal to not only one type of people. This book has so many different stories about so many different things. But there is one constant, football. No matter what stories you are reading it all somehow ties into how football explains everything. It is a good book because it has a wide variety of stories. I thought that that would take away from the book, but I thought the amount of stories made the book better. How Football Explains America is a good book because it is informative has a lot of stories and also has a wide range of stories. I have a personal connection to this book because I like to play football and enjoy watching it. I learned that football has a very rich and deep history. I feel that I worked very hard on this assignment. I spent around two hours doing it. I thought the typing was easy, but the ideas were hard to come up with. I did, however, enjoy doing this assignment. I thought it was a lot of fun. I enjoyed it a ton.Adam Niedbalski
review 2: Sal Paolantonio is a prolific sports reporter/writer who has also been in the military and an officer in the Philadelphia police department. When I saw he had this book out, I read it because I am a fan of his and of the subject matter. He has a real reverence for football history and American history. His writing is intelligent and the chapters tell separate stories but everything ties together as well. less

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