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Summary: Tim Green
Review: On-line Book Review I read the book The Dark Side of the Game, by Tim Green. I think it was a very good book. It was about things that happen in football that most people don't know about. Like the dark things. I guess that's where they get the title from. The book is put into about 30 chapters that have to do with different subjects. Some are about drugs, some are about how hard it is and some are about the fame and popularity. Tim Green used to play in the National Football League. That is where he got all of the ideas for the book. He has written a number of books, some of the titles are, The Red Zone, Titians, Ruffians, and Double Reverse, just to name a few. I have read about five of his books and this one is probably my favorite. Well there isn't anything else to say except that this is probably the best book that I have read.
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Summary: Tim Green
Review: On-line Book Review I read the book The Dark Side of the Game, by Tim Green. I think it was a very good book. It was about things that happen in football that most people don't know about. Like the dark things. I guess that's where they get the title from. The book is put into about 30 chapters that have to do with different subjects. Some are about drugs, some are about how hard it is and some are about the fame and popularity. Tim Green used to play in the National Football League. That is where he got all of the ideas for the book. He has written a number of books, some of the titles are, The Red Zone, Titians, Ruffians, and Double Reverse, just to name a few. I have read about five of his books and this one is probably my favorite. Well there isn't anything else to say except that this is probably the best book that I have read.
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Summary: The Dark Side of the Game
Review: The book "the Dark Side of the Game" was about the reality of the NFL and what athletes you see on TV have to go through every year, season, and day. It's a good book to read if you're a regular Fottball viewer, or just love the game. It goes into detail about trainning camp, physicals, and intervews. "Explains life in the NFL with out exageration" says Deion Sanders. It goes into great detail and brings you one step closer to the game, explaining strugglea with drugs, injuries, and women. There is even a chapter on how to shake a Football player's hand, saying that the way is not to show them your pwoer in grip, but to give a nice hand shake, for the hands of the NFL athletes are swollen and bruised all season. A new respect for the NFL athletes will be gained after reading this book, for the stories and conditions explained in the book are like none other. "If my boys were to not want to touch a football, i would be perfectly happy." says Green, knowing the game and the things that the players put up with, this quote is one to think about. Is the NFL really everybodys dream? Or just another dream that they'll be happy not pursuing?
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Summary: A deceptive title for a pedestrian book
Review: The foreboding and promising title of former Atlanta defensive end Tim Green's American bestseller is a misnomer. Far from being a searing expose of life in the NFL, Green's "dark" revelations about the reality of pro football taken from his experiences as a player and broadcaster are often little more than random observations. Amidst this collection of intermittently mundane anecdotes are several perceptive assertions. Green's explanation of the salary cap system and its effects upon the average player, and also the relationship between team owner, general manager, and coach, are especially informative. His recognition of the elements outside a player's control that are responsible for success, "being in the right time at the right place in the right system", and the social and financial hardships that these athletes face once their career is over, are similarly enlightening. However, Green's refusal to name teams or individual players in certain scandalous instances defuses his intention to divulge the truth. Moreover, his plaudits for former teammate Deion Sanders and one-time Atlanta coach Jerry Glanville, and his anodyne closing message for all budding NFL players that "they can do anything they want to do, so long as they aren't afraid to dream", are embarrassingly out of place in a book that wants to show what a ruthless industry pro-football really is. Newcomers to the world of gridiron will find much to interest them in Green's book. However, more established fans who are after an incisive insight into the bizarre and often-unsettling world of the NFL should look elsewhere.
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Summary: GREAT!!!!!!SUPER!!!!!
Review: This a great book!!!Every football fan should read it!!!It takes you backstage in the NFL.... Hope Mr Green Writes more books!!!
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Summary: very insightful
Review: this book takes you on the field.it deals with race,sex,drugs,politics&money.time green does a great job of pointing out the different things that go on off&on the field.i dug the dion sanders chapter.Dion is so underrated he can play two sports real well and offense&defense.michael jordan wished he was as talented as Dion.but that's another debate and topic.this book points out the separation of races and the lack of hiring Black coaches.the drugs to enhance play.like Al Davis says just win baby just win.the money cap and how free agency has changed the game.this book makes sense after this weird and clone style season.very insightful.
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Summary: TOP DRAWER
Review: This is an incredible look at the behind the scenes of American football. A truly excellent book!
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Summary: The Lightweight Side of the Game
Review: Though it professes to be a frank tell-all expose of the NFL, Tim Green's "Dark Side of the Game" is nothing of the sort. Green is a third-tier broadcast analyst for NFL games on television and he is clearly still far too indebted to the league to be truly critical of it. Every time you thinks he's strating to get to the good stuff, he pulls his punch and lets the league off the hook. The result is a wishy-washy mish-mash of some gossipy dirty laundry being aired without any information truly damaging to the league's powers that be. And might I add this; as a writer, Green is a lightweight. Rarely in this book does his prose rise above the level of the barely compotent.
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Summary: The Lightweight Side of the Game
Review: Though it professes to be a frank tell-all expose of the NFL, Tim Green's "Dark Side of the Game" is nothing of the sort. Green is a third-tier broadcast analyst for NFL games on television and he is clearly still far too indebted to the league to be truly critical of it. Every time you thinks he's strating to get to the good stuff, he pulls his punch and lets the league off the hook. The result is a wishy-washy mish-mash of some gossipy dirty laundry being aired without any information truly damaging to the league's powers that be. And might I add this; as a writer, Green is a lightweight. Rarely in this book does his prose rise above the level of the barely compotent.
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Summary: There should be more athletes like Tim Green.
Review: Tim Green authors this book with superb imagery and detail - it makes one feel as if they have stepped into the shoes of an NFL player. While it's not written to trash the NFL, it does give one a view not often seen on television or otherwise.
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