First published 2008
Frank Gifford takes readers onto the field for the 1958 National Football League Championship Game between the New York Giants and Baltimore Colts. The Hall of Fame player turned Monday Night Football broadcaster delivers an insider's account of the contest many consider the greatest football game ever played. Gifford captures the atmosphere and intensity as legendary players like Sam Huff, Andy Robustelli, Art Donovan, Lenny Moore, and Raymond Berry battle in a game that transformed professional football. The author provides intimate details from behind the helmet, bringing the sights and sounds of this historic clash back to life. Fifty years later, the New York Times noted, Gifford makes the action so vivid that readers find themselves wondering how the contest will end. This field-level perspective reveals the human drama within a sporting event that changed the game forever.
Genres: history, 20th-century, sports, non-fiction, biography-memoir, football, american-history
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: insider-perspective, sports-drama
Setting: Baltimore, New York
Period: 1958
304 pages · Hardcover · Harper