A Sportscaster's Guide to Watching Football

Decoding America's Favorite Game

by: Mark Oristano

A Sportscaster's Guide to Watching Football
Author: Mark Oristano

Publisher: Synergy Books

List price: $ 15.95

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Format: Paperback / softback

Publication date: 01 August 2009

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ISBN: 0982160119 ISBN 13: 9780982160114

Complete description

Want to know what everyone is cheering about? Learn to enjoy and understand the game with the football fanatic in your life. This book is the ultimate football guide for the novice fan. You will get answers to such complex questions as: What is that yellow line on the field and why does it keep moving? What down is it and why do I care? What is a 'T formation'? Laced with hilarious and insightful anecdotes from Mark Oristano's thirty-year career as a pro football sportscaster, A Sportscaster's Guide to Watching Football will turn you into a football-watching pro, or at least, let you fake it. Time Out: I was in the locker room before a game, and I saw an Oilers linebacker furiously drawing on his shoes with a permanent marker. This player, like many, had his ankle tape applied over the outside of his shoes instead of inside, which obviously covered the shoe logo. And he was drawing the logo of his shoe contract on the tape. "Wouldn't it be easier," I asked him, "to get taped inside and not have to do the artwork?" "Yeah, it would," he replied, "but then I'd actually have to wear their damn shoes, and I hate 'em. So I wear the brand I like and do it this way instead." Top page

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Publisher & Imprint: Synergy Books

Pages: 160

More info: height 213 mm width 137 mm weight 204 gr thickness 13 mm

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Age recommended: General/trade

Subject Indexing & Classification Dewey: 796.332


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