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...year old high school seniors is for the most part less widespread. Director and co-writer Peter Berg rightly devotes more time to the Panthers’ trials in their daily lives—how they survive in the face of such intense scrutiny—than their gridiron exploits to underscore that this isn’t just a game but a profession...
...1920s, a business professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School postulated that markets are bullish when hemlines inch upward. And when a team from the old American Football League beats a National Football League squad in the professional gridiron championship, stocks tend to sour...
...year old high school seniors is for the most part less widespread. Director and co-writer Peter Berg rightly devotes more time to te Panthers’ trials in their daily lives—how they survive in the face of such intense scrutiny—than their gridiron exploits to underscore that this isn’t just a game but a profession...
...book is largely biographic, a description of characters past and present who have invested themselves into the playing of football and the winning of The Game. Highlighted players include those who have gone on to greatness beyond the gridiron like Senator Edward M. Kennedy, ’54-’56 (D.-Mass) and Tommy Lee Jones ’62; monumental coaches like Camp and Percy Haughton of Harvard; and football legends like William W. “Pudge” Heffelfinger, 1891, of Yale and Milton A. Holt, ’75, of Harvard. It is evident...
...passes and touchdowns, just as The Game is much more than just four quarters of football. Corbett seems to have a deep understanding that the Bulldogs and Crimson teams are not just talented players, but also destined for greatness outside of athletics. “For two squads of gridiron combatants that were destined to become stockbrockers, investment bankers, corporate lawyers, and doctors, this was a taste of what it was like to play in the Super Bowl,” he says on page...