Synopses & Reviews
Newtonian physics! Historical allusions! Haiku?!?-Not your usual methods of discussing football. Yet, these conceits work hilariously and quite pointedly in Gregg Easterbrook's weekly football column Tuesday Morning Quarterback on Slate.com. An expert writer in fields as diverse as political commentary, comparative religion and ecorealism-not to mention one diehard football fanatic-Easterbrook creates a fresh and ironic examination of the sport. His wit and skill have brought in cult success for his column on the Internet. Now, Easterbrook brings his wry approach to the game to book form, creating an intriguingly oddball yet right-on-the-money examination of its topic. A perfect gift for football enthusiasts desperate for a more intelligent and humorous look at the game.
Synopsis
Based on the increasingly popular weekly football commentary on the e-zine
Slate,
Tuesday Morning Quarterback showcases the esoteric humor that has made Gregg Easterbrook's column a hit with sports fans on the Internet. By using Zen poetry, Newtonian physics, historical allusions, and other conceits, Easterbrook creates a fresh, ironic commentary to the philosophy of the game. Including mostly original material as well as a handful of classic
TMQ commentary from his column, this book, in the wry humorous tradition of
Golf in the Kingdom, The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook, and
O Holy Cow! The Selected Verse of Phil Rizzuto, is an intriguingly oddball yet right-on-the-money examination of football and its culture.
About the Author
Gregg Easterbrook's writing has appeared in the
New York Times, the
Washington Post, the
Los Angeles Times, and
The New Yorker. He has been a contributing editor at
Newsweek and is currently a contributing editor to
The Washington Monthly and a senior editor at
The New Republic. Easterbrook has published a novel,
This Magic Moment (1987), and is noted for his contribution to the ecorealism movement that he made possible with
A Moment on the Earth: The Coming Age of Environmental Optimism (1995). Easterbrook's popular
Tuesday Morning Quarterback column premiered on
Slate.com in September 2000.