The Best Game Ever Audiobook (Free)

On December 28, 1958, the New York Giants and Baltimore Colts met beneath the lighting of Yankee Stadium for that season’s NFL Tournament game. Football, developing in recognition amid America’s post-war financial growth, was still significantly over-shadowed by the country’s favored pastime – football – however the 1958 championship became the turning stage for pro soccer. For the field and roaming the sidelines were seventeen future Hall of Famers, including Colts stars Johnny Unitas, Raymond Berry, and about THE VERY BEST Game Ever Gino Marchetti, and Giants greats Frank Gifford, Sam Huff, and helper instructors Vince Lombardi and Tom Landry. Played on a freezing Sunday night time in front of 64,000 fans and an estimated forty-five million television viewers around the country – in those days the largest crowd to possess ever watched a football game – the championship would end up being the 1st sudden-death competition in NFL history. With two a few minutes left in rules, Baltimore had ownership deep in its own territory, as well as the ball in the hands of the still unproven quarterback Johnny Unitas. THE VERY BEST Game Ever can be a brilliant family portrait of what sort of single game transformed the annals of American sports. Published to coincide using the fiftieth anniversary of the championship, it is destined to be always a sports classic.