The Best Game Ever: Giants vs. Colts, 1958, and the Birth of the Modern NFL
by: Mark Bowden
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On December 28, 1958, the New York Giants and Baltimore Colts met under the lights of Yankee Stadium for the NFL Championship game. Played in front of sixty-four thousand fans and millions of television viewers around the country, the game would be remembered as the greatest in football history. On the field and roaming the sidelines were seventeen future Hall of Famers, including Colts stars Johnny Unitas, Raymond Berry, and Gino Marchetti, and Giants greats Frank Gifford, Sam Huff, and assistant coaches Vince Lombardi and Tom Landry. An estimated forty-five million viewers—at that time the largest crowd to have ever watched a football game—tuned in to see what would become the first sudden-death contest in NFL history. It was a battle of the league's best offense—the Colts—versus its best defense—the Giants. And it was a contest between the blue-collar Baltimore team versus the glamour boys of the Giants squad. The Best Game Ever is a brilliant portrait of how a single game changed the history of American sport. Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the championship, it is destined to be a sports classic.
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- Great Account of the Era and the Game
Bowden brings the setting and the game alive in a thrilling account of the game that launched modern football.Enough detail for a rabid football fan but enough human drama for a Sunday afternoon viewer.fascinating, funny, touching, makes you wish you'd seen it and knew the men that played it.
Rating: - Review of the Best Game Ever
The Best Game Ever is a fairly good account of what is probably the most famous game in NFL history - the 1958 NFL Championship game where the Baltimore Colts defeated the New York Giants 23-17 in the NFL's first sudden death overtime game. The game pitted some of the greatest players of all time against one another such as Johnny Unitas and Raymond Berry of the Colts, and Frank Gifford and Sam Huff of the Giants. The game also sported three legendary coaches, Vince Lombardi on offense for the Giants, ... Read More
Rating: - The Epic Review
By A.C. Beatty
I read the book "The Best Game Ever" By: Mark Bowden. The book is about the 1958 NFC Championship between the New York Giants and the Baltimore Colts. In this epic game there were many to be Hall of Famers, including Johnny Unitas, coach Vince Lombardi, and Tom Landry. It was the best offense in the league vs the best defense in the leaque. Who ever won the game went to the Super Bowl that year. That night 45 million people, the most ever to watch a single game tuned in. The ... Read More
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- Sports Writing As Good As It Gets
This book is an instant addition to the Sports Writing Hall of Fame. Bowden takes us back to an earlier time, a time when football as we now know it did not yet exist. He brings us to the game that might well mark the birth of today's NFL, and he captures the moment with uncanny clarity and style. He sets the stage by introducing us to the game as it was played before TV made it a weekly spectacle, when its players often had to hold second jobs in the off-season just to make ends meet, thus making them ... Read More
Rating: - an evocative andgripping journalistic description of a pivotal sports moment
Appropriately dedicated to David Halberstam, "The Best Game Ever:Giants vs. Colts, 1958, and the Birth of the Modern NFL" seamlessly blends a gripping journalistic description of the thrilling National Football League championship game with riveting personal stories of participants and witnesses.Author Mark Bowen clearly outlines the background and significance of the contest; he does so with both admiration and considerable affection for the men who fought on the semi-frozen Yankee Stadium turf that ... Read More
- Great Account of the Era and the GameBowden brings the setting and the game alive in a thrilling account of the game that launched modern football.Enough detail for a rabid football fan but enough human drama for a Sunday afternoon viewer.fascinating, funny, touching, makes you wish you'd seen it and knew the men that played it.
- Review of the Best Game EverThe Best Game Ever is a fairly good account of what is probably the most famous game in NFL history - the 1958 NFL Championship game where the Baltimore Colts defeated the New York Giants 23-17 in the NFL's first sudden death overtime game. The game pitted some of the greatest players of all time against one another such as Johnny Unitas and Raymond Berry of the Colts, and Frank Gifford and Sam Huff of the Giants. The game also sported three legendary coaches, Vince Lombardi on offense for the Giants, ... Read More
- The Epic ReviewBy A.C. Beatty
I read the book "The Best Game Ever" By: Mark Bowden. The book is about the 1958 NFC Championship between the New York Giants and the Baltimore Colts. In this epic game there were many to be Hall of Famers, including Johnny Unitas, coach Vince Lombardi, and Tom Landry. It was the best offense in the league vs the best defense in the leaque. Who ever won the game went to the Super Bowl that year. That night 45 million people, the most ever to watch a single game tuned in. The ... Read More
- Sports Writing As Good As It GetsThis book is an instant addition to the Sports Writing Hall of Fame. Bowden takes us back to an earlier time, a time when football as we now know it did not yet exist. He brings us to the game that might well mark the birth of today's NFL, and he captures the moment with uncanny clarity and style. He sets the stage by introducing us to the game as it was played before TV made it a weekly spectacle, when its players often had to hold second jobs in the off-season just to make ends meet, thus making them ... Read More
- an evocative andgripping journalistic description of a pivotal sports momentAppropriately dedicated to David Halberstam, "The Best Game Ever:Giants vs. Colts, 1958, and the Birth of the Modern NFL" seamlessly blends a gripping journalistic description of the thrilling National Football League championship game with riveting personal stories of participants and witnesses.Author Mark Bowen clearly outlines the background and significance of the contest; he does so with both admiration and considerable affection for the men who fought on the semi-frozen Yankee Stadium turf that ... Read More
