Synopses & Reviews
"Uproariously funny." (Elmore Leonard)
"Captures the beer-and-blood flavor of the NFL." (Entertainment Weekly)
"Deliciously wicked...Reminiscent of North Dallas Forty and Semi-Tough." (Publishers Weekly)
Only a sportswriter like Mike Lupica could write a pigskin satire as fast, funny, and fiercely entertaining as Bump & Run-in which a Las Vegas "jammer" takes a gamble on the wildest, wooliest team in the NFL.
"Truly hip, uproariously funny, and my God, it might even be true. Bump & Run places Lupica high up among the funniest guys writing fiction." (Elmore Leonard)
"Even if you don't give a rat's xss for professional football, you should read this savagely hilarious novel."(Pete Hamill)
"Outrageous, opinionated, and most important, funny as hell." (Phil Simms, CBS Sports, Super Bowl-winning quarterback, New York Giants)
Synopsis
In Vegas, they called him the Jammer. The kind of guy who got things done. But when Jack Molloy inherited half of the NFL's New York Hawks, he had to take a crash course in steroids, gambling, crooked quarterbacks, idiot sportswriters, control-freak coaches, and philandering announcers. He had to huddle up with characters like Tire Iron Timmons, an ordained minister of WHUP, and Mo Jiggy, rap star turned agent. And, as an instant celebrity, he had to steel himself for a season in tabloid hell...
Welcome to the wonderful world of professional football.