Tuesday Morning Quarterback: Haiku and Other Whimsical Observations to Help You Understand the Modern Game - Hardcover

Easterbrook, Gregg

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9780789306517: Tuesday Morning Quarterback: Haiku and Other Whimsical Observations to Help You Understand the Modern Game

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0789306514 ISBN 13: 9780789306517

Publisher: Universe, 2001

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Based on the increasingly popular weekly football commentary on the e-zine Slate, Tuesday Morning Quarterback showcases the esoteric humor that has made Gregg Easterbrook's column a hit with sports fans on the Internet. By using Zen poetry, Newtonian physics, historical allusions, and other conceits, Easterbrook creates a fresh, ironic commentary to the philosophy of the game. Including mostly original material as well as a handful of classic TMQ commentary from his column, this book, in the wry humorous tradition of Golf in the Kingdom, The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook, and O Holy Cow! The Selected Verse of Phil Rizzuto, is an intriguingly oddball yet right-on-the-money examination of football and its culture.

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About the Author:

Gregg Easterbrook's writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and The New Yorker. He has been a contributing editor at Newsweek and is currently a contributing editor to The Washington Monthly and a senior editor at The New Republic. Easterbrook has published a novel, This Magic Moment (1987), and is noted for his contribution to the ecorealism movement that he made possible with A Moment on the Earth: The Coming Age of Environmental Optimism (1995). Easterbrook's popular Tuesday Morning Quarterback column premiered on Slate.com in September 2000.

From Publishers Weekly:

Titled after his thoughtful Slate column, Tuesday Morning Quarterback: Haiku and Whimsical Observations to Help You Understand the Modern Game presses sportswriter Gregg Easterbrook's commentary into metrical service. His one rule: "literary merit optional." How else to explain gems like "Ideally, don't play./ Fans wince when I trot on field./ I am the Punter." Indeed. Yet Easterbrook has the lefty egghead sportsnut market locked up in addition to his Slate duties, he's a contributing editor at the Atlantic Monthly, and a senior editor at the New Republic. He's also the author of what the press chat calls "the landmark eco-realist book," A Moment on the Earth: The Coming of Age of Environmental Optimism. This little square book (5 1/2" 6 1/4") includes 40 b&w illustrations, mostly of old-style gridiron action.

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