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Sports -- Football Before cable television and mega-contracts, professional jocks' lives were little different from those of the fans in the stands. ...Show synopsisSports -- Football Before cable television and mega-contracts, professional jocks' lives were little different from those of the fans in the stands. Back then, the game they played was much simpler but far rougher than anything seen today. Ever cheering from the sidelines, Perian Conerly, wife of the New York Giants' star quarterback Charlie Conerly, and the first female sportswriter in the National Sportswriters' Association, wrote this light-hearted account of pro football during its heyday (1948-1961). Her husband led the Giants for fourteen seasons. As she describes the glory games, the players, and life on the road, she delivers from the inside the kind of personal reportage that fans adore. Her story begins with the hilarious misadventures of her wedding day in Clarksdale, Mississippi, "the Golden Buckle on the Cotton Belt." It ends thirteen years later with Charlie's retirement at the age of forty. In between, there are vignettes of the closely-knit cadre of Giants' wives, most of whom resided in the same Bronx hotel near Yankee Stadium. She also reports locker-room gossip and recounts amusing pro-ball anecdotes of a time before TV made athletes' images familiar in all households. Although their deeds on the gridiron were notable, their faces were not. Back then, players were so anonymous in public that many times they fell prey to imitators who stole their identities to mooch drinks and dinners from unsuspecting fans only for the thrill of passing as "somebody." Along with her scoop reports on winning games, Mrs. Conerly paints an endearing portrait of her famous husband, an Ole Miss legend who, after retirement, was hired as the first Marlboro Man. Though her style is casual, she moves the reader painlessly through some of the finer points of the game. The "Washington Evening Star" touted her for "having written the best book on pro football in a long time." The "New York Times," for which Mrs. Conerly wrote occasional sports columns, said that "Backseat Quarterback" "is exactly the kind of book that one would expect Perian Conerly to write. Its pages shine with her charm, gaiety, wit, intelligence, and sparkle." "Newsweek" praised its "comic insight." This reissue of a favorite book of 1963 has a foreword by the Conerlys' friend and teammate Frank Gifford. Perian Conerly's sports columns have appeared frequently in the "New York Times," "Sports Illustrated," and the "Sporting News." She lives in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Frank Gifford, four-time NFL All-Pro player and enshrinee in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, is a prominent television sportscaster.Hide synopsis
Backseat Quarterback (University Press of Mississippi) – Hardcover (2003)
by
Perian Conerly, Frank Gifford (Foreword by)
Hardcover, University Press of Mississippi 2003
English
253 pages
ISBN: 1578065976 ISBN-13: 9781578065974
Sports -- Football Before cable television and mega-contracts, professional jocks' lives were little different from those of the fans in the stands. Back then, the game they played was much simpler but far rougher than anything seen today. Ever cheering from the sidelines, Perian Conerly, wife of the New York Giants' star quarterback Charlie Conerly, and the first female sportswriter in the National Sportswriters' Association, wrote this light-hearted account of pro football during its heyday (1948-1961). Her husband led ...Show moreSports -- Football Before cable television and mega-contracts, professional jocks' lives were little different from those of the fans in the stands. Back then, the game they played was much simpler but far rougher than anything seen today. Ever cheering from the sidelines, Perian Conerly, wife of the New York Giants' star quarterback Charlie Conerly, and the first female sportswriter in the National Sportswriters' Association, wrote this light-hearted account of pro football during its heyday (1948-1961). Her husband led the Giants for fourteen seasons. As she describes the glory games, the players, and life on the road, she delivers from the inside the kind of personal reportage that fans adore. Her story begins with the hilarious misadventures of her wedding day in Clarksdale, Mississippi, "the Golden Buckle on the Cotton Belt." It ends thirteen years later with Charlie's retirement at the age of forty. In between, there are vignettes of the closely-knit cadre of Giants' wives, most of whom resided in the same Bronx hotel near Yankee Stadium. She also reports locker-room gossip and recounts amusing pro-ball anecdotes of a time before TV made athletes' images familiar in all households. Although their deeds on the gridiron were notable, their faces were not. Back then, players were so anonymous in public that many times they fell prey to imitators who stole their identities to mooch drinks and dinners from unsuspecting fans only for the thrill of passing as "somebody." Along with her scoop reports on winning games, Mrs. Conerly paints an endearing portrait of her famous husband, an Ole Miss legend who, after retirement, was hired as the first Marlboro Man. Though her style is casual, she moves the reader painlessly through some of the finer points of the game. The "Washington Evening Star" touted her for "having written the best book on pro football in a long time." The "New York Times," for which Mrs. Conerly wrote occasional sports columns, said that "Backseat Quarterback" "is exactly the kind of book that one would expect Perian Conerly to write. Its pages shine with her charm, gaiety, wit, intelligence, and sparkle." "Newsweek" praised its "comic insight." This reissue of a favorite book of 1963 has a foreword by the Conerlys' friend and teammate Frank Gifford. Perian Conerly's sports columns have appeared frequently in the "New York Times," "Sports Illustrated," and the "Sporting News." She lives in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Frank Gifford, four-time NFL All-Pro player and enshrinee in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, is a prominent television sportscaster.Hide
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Hardcover,
University Press of Mississippi,
2003
Description:Very good. Hardback in very good condition. still has dusk...Very good. Hardback in very good condition. still has dusk jacket, tight binding and pages are bright white and NO writing, still in great shape.
Description:Good. Dust jacket is slightly ill-fitting and has two tiny rip...Good. Dust jacket is slightly ill-fitting and has two tiny rip at top edge. "1.00" written inside back cover. Boards are bright, corners sharp. Free from marks, highlighting, and dogears.
