“Tom Brady vs. the NFL” Available for Pre-Order

By on May 1st, 2012

My new book, Tom Brady vs. the NFL: The Case for Football’s Greatest Quarterback, is now available for pre-order on line. I’m sure you can get it from whatever your favorite internet book retailer may be, but I know it’s available from both Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

Some of the information in the description on those two sites is inaccurate. There are no sidebars about Brady’s hair, Brady’s wife or Brady’s fashion sense in the book. That was part of the original plan, but the book worked out to be a pretty serious football book. The tone isn’t all serious, mind you; I think this book is a lot of fun to read. It’s just that it turned out that it needed to be a book about a football player rather than a book about a celebrity athlete. The off-field stuff just didn’t fit.

Here’s some of what is in the book:

  • A season-by-season review of Brady’s career with the New England Patriots.
  • A look at Brady’s accomplishments as a college player with the Michigan Wolverines.
  • A complete rundown of Brady’s various records as a pro.
  • Chapters on 15 of the NFL’s greatest quarterbacks/passers including Sammy Baugh, Otto Graham, Johnny Unitas, Bart Starr, Roger Staubach, Joe Montana, Dan Marino and Peyton Manning; each paired with a side-by-side career comparison with Brady.
  • Items on some of the top quarterbacks currently playing in the NFL — Aaron Rodgers, Drew Brees, Ben Roethlisberger, and Eli Manning — along with analysis of how each stacks up/may stack up with Brady.

The book also includes a foreword written by Pat Kirwan, who you know as senior analyst for NFL.com, co-host of SiriusXM NFL Radio’s Movin’ the Chains, and author of the amazing book Take Your Eye Off the Ball: How to Watch Football by Knowing Where to Look. Pat’s also an editorial consultant to The NFL Today on CBS, and a longtime coach and front office guy, who most recently served as director of player administration for the New York Jets. Pat’s one of a handful of guys whose opinions on football I regard as approaching gospel. He knows the game. And he knows quarterbacks. So I was really honored when he agreed to write the foreword for this book. He has some interesting things to say about Brady. His foreword’s worth a read all by itself.

The book is currently scheduled to hit stores October 1, though I know it’s currently ahead of schedule in production.

That’s probably enough for the nonce. More as fall approaches.

 

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