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Collision Low Crossers: A Year Inside the Turbulent World of NFL Football Audiobook
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An unrivaled portrait of day-to-day life in the NFL: "Riveting . . . an instant classic" (New York Times Book Review).
By spending a year with the New York Jets, Nicholas Dawidoff entered a mysterious and private world with its own rituals and language. Equal parts Paper Lion, Moneyball, Friday Night Lights, and The Office, this absorbing, funny, and vivid narrative gets to the heart of a massive and stressful collective endeavor.
Here is football in many faces: the polarizing, brilliant, and hilarious head coach; the general manager, whose job is to support (and suppress) the irrepressible coach; the defensive coaches and their in-house rivals, the offensive coaches; and of course the players.
Wise safeties, brooding linebackers, high-strung cornerbacks, enthusiastic rookies, and a well-read nose tackle: they make up a strange and complex family. Dawidoff makes an emblematic NFL season come alive for fans and nonfans alike in a book about football that will forever change the way people watch and think about the sport.
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“[A] riveting new case study of theprofessional game…Dawidoff’s exhaustive account..is an instant classic of thegenre…The book is a triumph less of access than of immersion and portraiture…andcreates an ensemble of interlocking stories…[It] offers an especially trenchantlook at the culture of the locker room, laying bare the fine line betweenpranks, ridicule, pique, and affection…Dawidoff’s writing is rich and lucid…Bythe book’s end, I felt the way I do after every NFL season—exhausted and sorryit was over.”
— New York Times Book Review
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“The book is closely and boldly observed, frankly reported, ferociously written with both humor and humanity; it teems with wonderful lines, rich and vivid passages. The end result is what all coaches long for, the magical pleasure of watching a perfectly managed game that ends in a great victory.”
— Thomas Powers, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist -
“Unputdownable....Whatever your interest, be it in sports, business, or even politics, Collision Low Crossers is a great read. You won’t be disappointed.”
— Forbes -
“A rare behind-the-scenes look at what makes a football organization tick.”
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“Entirely suspenseful, even when one knows how it will turn out...Dawidoff has established a reputation as one of the best chroniclers of sports in American life....A deeply nuanced look at an organization—a business—with characters who leap off the page.”
— Chicago Tribune -
“Superb....Excellent stuff.... Dawidoff is as good as they come.”
— Newsday -
“A wonderful book by a talented writer I hope to read more from in the future.”
— Seattle Post-Intelligencer -
“A fascinating, incisive look at football, written in prose that soars like a perfect pass.”
— Shelf Awareness, a Shelf Awareness Best Book of 2013 -
“This is a superlative insider’s portrait of one NFL team, and it’s accessible to casual fans and irresistible to NFL geeks.”
— Booklist (starred review) -
“Dawidoff is a crack writer, saturating the book with the best of a year’s worth of anecdotes and lacing it with the backgrounds of coaches and players with an intimacy that begs the question how he got all this sharp and often moving material...Dawidoff has a sure hand with the nature of passion, the rancor, and weeping joy that characterizes every season in the most popular sport in the country. Insightful, immediate sportswriting. Readers will feel every bit of the team’s frustration and elation.”
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review) -
“It is rare indeed that any writer can infiltrate any sports team so thoroughly as Nicholas Dawidoff has done in Collision Low Crossers…a sports tour de force.”
— Frank Deford, news commentator and member of the Sportswriters Hall of Fame -
“By converging elements of the best sport literature—analysis, expose, humor—into an expansive narrative, he takes readers inside the windowless offices of the Jets’ Florham Park, New Jersey, headquarters and onto sweat-stained practice fields where men become boys and friendships rise and fall.”
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A beautiful portrait of a wounded family.... inquisitive and graceful.
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Marvelous... you'll simply want the story-his story-to continue on and on.
— Chicago Tribune -
Evocative.... The crackle of Dawidoff's writing and his unstinting...sensitivity make his...journey compelling.
— Washington Post
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A New York Times Editor’s Choice
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A Chicago Tribune Editor’s Choice
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A Shelf Awareness Best Book of 2013
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About Nicholas Dawidoff
Nicholas Dawidoff is the author of several books, including The Fly Swatter, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and another, In the Country of Country, which was named one of the greatest all-time works of travel literature by Conde Nast Traveller, as well as the New York Times bestseller The Catcher Was a Spy. A graduate of Harvard University, he has been a Guggenheim, Civitella Ranieri, and Berlin Prize Fellow, and is a contributor to the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, and the American Scholar.
About David de Vries
David de Vries, an Earphones Award-winning audiobook narrator and veteran stage actor and director, spent three years in the cast of Wicked and was the last Lumiere in the Broadway production of Beauty and the Beast. He has also appeared in numerous films and voiced commercial campaigns for companies large and small, including American Express, AT&T, UPS, Motorola, Georgia-Pacific, Delta Airlines, Coca Cola, and Ford, among others. He can be seen in a number of feature films, including The Founder, The Accountant, Captain America: Civil War, and Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk. On television, his credits include House of Cards, Nashville, and Halt and Catch Fire.