Product Description
Fine condition dark blue boards, blue cloth spine and silver spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket.
Includes Authors' Dedications and Acknowledgments.
Illustrated with two sections of black-and-white photographic plates.
Remainder mark at lower page edge.
"When Jim Burt's New York Giants beat the Washington Redskins for the NFC Championship - the Giants' first in 30 years - he scaled a 10-foot wall to celebrate in the stands.
And few fans will forget the sight of the 260-pound nose tackle hoisting his small son on his shoulders and carrying him around the field in the final seconds of the Giants' Super Bowl victory over the Denver Broncos.
Here is the story of the 1986 Giants as only a player in the trenches could tell it, with intensity and high jinks.
Though Burt never got what he wanted the easy way, he did always have fun.
He describes being a tough kid in Buffalo and how Lou Saban, his coach at the University of Miami, finally got him in line after he executed a dubious landscaping project on the intramural football field; how he came to the Giants as a "dirt-bag free agent" in 1981 and literally fought his way onto the team.
As the Giants' designated prankster, Burt regales us whth shenanigans on and off the field and provides candid shots of teammates, opponents, and coaches - especially head coach Bill Parcells, with whom he has a close but stormy relationship.
Most of all, Hard Nose shows how a team - once great, then almost forgotten - rushed and passed all the way to the Super Bowl and captivated a city and a nation with a miracle season.
" - from the inner front jacket flap.
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