A wry, witty look at life with the Dallas Cowboys during the heyday of Tom Landry and Roger Staubach, The Crunch shows the real life that makes legends and lacerates the Cowboys mechanistic corporate image, revealing a world that is both more and less than we expect, yet funnier than we could imagine.Peter Gent, author of North Dallas FortyMore characters than War and Peace. More laughs than Laugh-In...A pro football classic!Frank Luska, The Dallas Morning News

The crunch: An irreverent trip through the NFL, from rookie year to a world championship to the player's strike

Toomay, Pat

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 1975

The Crunch

Biographies & Memoirs

W.W.Norton&Company

This is a novel about football-professional, that is-in something of the way, say, Bernard Malamud's The Natural is a novel about baseball. In it you can discover the essence, the truth of the warzone the players inhabit that can only be invoked by Pat Toomay, a man who was there."Pat Toomay, for many years a lineman with the Cowboys and the Raiders, has mixed fact and fiction to produce a story that will make every armchair quarterback laugh and wince-and worry at his exposition of 'the game's' most insidious reality: the prospect-on any given Sunday-of a fix."-John Seignthaler, Editorial Director, USA Today

On Any Given Sunday

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Backinprint.com

On any given Sunday, one team can beat another...

Paperjacks

Humor & Satire

Donald I. Fine, Inc.

"Pat Toomay has mixed fact and fiction to produce a story that will make every armchair quarterback laugh and wince-and worry at his exposition of "the game's" most insidious reality: the prospect - on any given Sunday-of a fix." -John Seigenthaler, USA Today "Toomay, for many years a lineman with the Cowboys and the Raiders, gives a sinister turn to the old saw that 'on any given Sunday, one team can beat another'. . . . He writes knowledgeably about football: its strategy, the pain, the respect and hatred between the men in the trenches." -Publishers Weekly

Literary

Open Road Integrated Media LLC

"A wry, witty look at life with the Dallas Cowboys during the heyday of Tom Landry and Roger Staubach, The Crunch shows the real life that makes legends and lacerates the Cowboys mechanistic corporate image, revealing a world that is both more and less than we expect, yet funnier than we could image." -Peter Gent, author of North Dallas Forty "More characters than War and Peace. More laughs than Laugh-In. . . . A pro football classic!" -Frank Luksa, The Dallas Morning News

Sports & Outdoors

Football (American)

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The crunch: An irreverent trip through the NFL, from rookie year to a world championship to the player's strike

The Crunch

On Any Given Sunday

On Any Given Sunday

On Any Given Sunday

On Any Given Sunday

The Crunch