Big Game: The NFL in Dangerous Times Audiobook (Free)

In the No.1 bestselling author of This Town comes a thrillingly raw and hysterical account of the billionaires, crooks, charlatans and scoundrels that own and work the NFL.

American Soccer – using its celebrity players, billionaire owners, and cheerleaders with perfect teeth – is usually even more American than apple pie. Which explains why the celebrated New York Times journalist, Tag Leibovich, has selected football as the automobile through which to examine the stressed condition of Trump’s about Big Video game: The NFL in Dangerous Times America.

Big Game chronicles a four-year odyssey which has taken Leibovich deeper inside the NFL than anyone has truly gone before. From the owners’ meeting towards the draft to the sidelines of crucial games, he takes in the show in the elbow of everyone from Tom Brady to big-name owners towards the cordially despised NFL Commissioner, Roger Goodell.Ultimately, this is a story of what will come to be observed as ‘peak football’ – the high point from the sport’s economic success and cultural dominance, yet also as soon as when the dark side begun to show. It is an era of explosive income growth, as luxurious new stadiums sprout all over the country, but also one of creeping existential dread. Football was never thought to be easy on your body – players joke darkly the NFL stands for ‘not really for long’ for good cause – but as the real impact of concussions become inescapable background noise, it’s become more and more difficult to enjoy the easy glory of soccer with no buzzkill of its apparent consequences.

And that was before Donald Trump. In 2016, the NFL slammed headlong into America’s culture wars. Big Game is a trip via an epic surprise. Through everything, Leibovich always maintains one eye on Tom Brady and his cherished Patriots, through to the 2018 Super Bowl. Pro soccer, this hilarious and enthralling reserve proves, may not be the sport America needs, but it is most definitely the activity it deserves.