by Sarah Statz Cords
Or, as in my case, are we ready for some advertisements between the football playing? I must admit that I almost always watch the Super Bowl, although my team (Go Pack!) hasn’t made an appearance there for a while. My interest in this Sunday’s Super Bowl XLIV will be primarily to see how the ads are, and to eat as much junk food as possible during the broadcast.
This got me thinking. Of course, we won’t be seeing any, but wouldn’t it be awesome to see some ads for books during the Super Bowl? (There’s no event I don’t want to see books involved in, really.) So that’s the question as this week winds down: If you could advertise any book or author during the Super Bowl broadcast, what or who would it be, and why?
My personal vote would be to advertise the books of biographer Mark Kriegel, who is the author of the nonfiction titles Namath: A Biography, and Pistol: The Life of Pete Maravich. I very rarely read sports biographies, but Kriegel’s books are masterpieces of both sports reporting and good solid storytelling. I very much hope to see more titles from him in the future, and I’ve always thought he doesn’t get enough attention as a writer. And, of course, I think his work might strongly appeal to football fans (whether they love or hate Joe Namath)!
I’ve heard the movie is pretty sappy.
My favorite Klosterman essay is “”George Will vs. Nick Hornby” from Sex, drugs, and cocoa puffs. His rip on soccer is hilarious and true.
I’ll have to check out “Paper Lion”.
Keith,
I thought about “The Blind Side” too! What a great book…not only about football, but about so many other things as well. I loved the book…have you seen the movie? Should I not bother?
I too enjoyed Chuck’s football essay very much; one of the best in that collection.
I also thought about advertising George Plimpton’s masterpieces of participatory journalism and sports, starting with “Paper Lion.”
The blind side : evolution of a game by Michael Lewis is an excellent football book. Don’t let the Sandra Bullock movie put you off, it’s an great analysis of the evolution of the LT position in football.
Chuck Klosterman has a great essay on football in his new book Eating the Dinosaur.