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The Best Game Ever
Giants vs. Colts, 1958, and the Birth of the Modern NFL
By Bowden, Mark
- ISBN
- 978-0-87113-988-7
- Publisher
- Atlantic Monthly Press
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Reviewed on June 1, 2008
Bowden (Atlantic Monthly) won the National Book Award for the searing war story Black Hawk Down, but this former sportswriter has also written about professional football. He returns to the gridiron here to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1958 Colts-Giants NFL championship game, the first ever to go into sudden death overtime to determine a winner. The game is often said to mark the very beginning of pro football's dominance in American culture. So natu...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
