John Feinstein, Bob Glauber and Jack Gilden, authors of good NFL books for the holiday season.

The Peter King Podcast

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4.4 • 872 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2018

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Feinstein, author of 40 books including the new one "Quarterback: Inside the Most Important Position in the National Football League," on playing the toughest job in sports, and on how racism still may exist in the evaluation of quarterback by the NFL. Glauber, author of "Guts and Genius: The Story of Three Unlikely Coaches Who Came To Dominate the NFL in the '80s," on how Bill Walsh, Bill Parcells and Joe Gibbs all were in job jeopardy in their first NFL seasons, on the odd and tempestuous relationships between the three of them, and on how every coach in the NFL today is on the coaching tree of one of those men. Gilden, author of "Collision of Wills: Johnny Unitas, Don Shula and the Rise of the Modern NFL," in a fascinating and living-history look at the NFL of the sixties, with an incredible passage from his book on Vince Lombardi and concussions, and on how Unitas and Shula really felt about the other and the game.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Peter King Podcast, where I tell you quite a bit about football and just a tad about life.
0:10.0	And this week we're going to have a totally different kind of podcast. I'm a big reader and I
0:18.7	decided that on this
0:23.0	holiday season.
0:24.0	You might be looking for something for that special football
0:28.0	someone.
0:29.0	So I'm going to have authors of three books that I like and I think we're going to have a good
0:37.4	intelligent hour of conversation about their books and about the game of football that you'll really enjoy.
0:46.0	We're going to have John Feinstein,
0:48.0	who's the author of 40 books and the latest from Double Day is called Quarterback
0:54.3	Inside the Most Important Position in the National Football League.
0:58.4	Now we're going to have Bob Glauber from Newsday
1:02.2	who just wrote a book called Guuts and Genius, the story of three
1:06.4	unlikely coaches who came to dominate the NFL in the 80s.
1:11.2	And that's Parcells, Walsh, and Gibbs. That's a book by Grand Central Publishing.
1:15.0	Then we're going to have Collision of Wills, author Jack Gilden. And that's a book about John United, Don Shula, and the
1:26.3	rise of the modern NFL. This book has some great, great history stuff from the 60s that I guarantee you if you're a history
1:36.4	buffer just love football you'll really really like. But before I get to those
1:41.2	conversations I just want to tell you in keeping with the theme of this program,
1:46.0	one of the reasons why I think writing about books, which I'm going to do just sort of over the years my culture of reading a lot and reading books and not just
2:08.4	newspaper and magazine stories and internet stuff now but I sort of got started in some ways reading when I was just
2:19.1	10, 11, 12 years old, reading some books that really were enlightening about what sports were really like.
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