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Blood, Sweat & Chalk: How The Geniuses Of Football Created America's Favorite Game (2010)

by Tim Layden(Favorite Author)

3.94 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1603200614 (ISBN13: 9781603200615)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Time, Incorporated Home Entertainment

review 1: I'm not much of a football fan anymore, but even so, this book put me in the mood to watch some games, because whether you're a student of the game or just a casual fan, this book will teach you something you never knew. Like Pop Warner, Great-Grandfather of modern football, coached Jim Thorpe in my hometown of Carlisle, PA....Nice to have something other than"Car Shows" to be known for...
review 2: Tim Layden gets some things a little wrong and piles up name after name after name in bewildering mounds, but mostly gets things right in characterizing the nuances of football innovation. Unusually, he doesn't slight high school and small college innovators who brought us the 3-3-5 defense (adapted against the spread), hosts of single-wing (Wildcat) type attacks, s... morepread offense, the veer-wishbone-triple option, zone blocking schemes (which Leyden doens't really do a particularly good job explaining), and more - all of which find their ways into the NFL.I wish, however, that the book had had better x's-and-o's diagrams, that the paper edition reproduced "The Web of Coaches" diagram found on the inside jacket of the hardcover (the paper edition does, however, reproduce the reference to "see inside jacket for 'The Web of Coaches'"!), and that, with all the names and formations and recurring themes, interviewees, and innovators, that Layden or SI had taken the time to prepare an index - any index, even an inadequate one. Instead, nada. Still, a useful volume that spreads deserved credit around in a business in which everyone is loath to take it. less

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