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February 14, 2005
Book Review
Not much real Giants news, so I bring you this book review for America's Game: The Epic Story of How Pro Football Captured a Nation by Michael MacCambridge from Random House, 552 pp., illustrated, $27.95. It does briefly mention the Giants:
...football didn't really begin its ascent to widespread popularity until 1958, when the NFL Championship game between the New York Giants and Baltimore Colts stopped the nation's sports fans in their tracks. With the explosion in the popularity of television, that thrilling contest settled in overtime and known to football history as ''the Greatest Game Ever Played" was seen by more Americans than any other football game before it. Yet two years later, when the owners of the NFL's 12 teams elected Pete Rozelle to succeed Bert Bell as commissioner, baseball fans still outnumbered football fans by a wide margin.Posted by James Trotta at February 14, 2005 9:32 PM
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