The Best Game Ever : Giants vs. Colts, 1958, and the Birth of the Modern NFL by Mark Bowden

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2008-05-05 Hardcover First Edition New On December 28, 1958, the New York Giants and Baltimore Colts met under the lights of Yankee Stadium for that season's NFL Championship game. Football, growing in popularity amid America's post-war economic boom, was still greatly over-shadowed by the country's favored pastime ? baseball ? but the 1958 championship proved to be the turning point for pro football. 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. Played on a freezing Sunday evening in front of 64, 000 fans and an estimated forty-five million television viewers around the country-at that time the largest crowd to have ever watched a football game-the championship would become the first sudden-death contest in NFL history. With two minutes left in regulation, Baltimore had possession deep in its own territory, a

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2008 book Hardcover Brand New Brand new. Never read or owned. May have a remainder mark. 279 pages. 8.50 x 6.00 x 1.00 in. 16.0 oz. Mark Bowden, bestselling author of BLACK HAWK DOWN, vividly brings to life the glorious 1958 National Football League championship game between the Baltimore Colts and New York Giants. The game received the largest television rating for a football game, and was pivotal in the massive growth of the sport's popularity. Bowden writes about the historical context of the game, and also brings to life the many larger-than-life players taking the field (including 17 future Hall of Famers), in particular the legendary Johnny Unitas.

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