Their Life's Work: The Brotherhood of the 1970s Pittsburgh

Their Life's Work: The Brotherhood of the 1970s Pittsburgh Steelers, Then and Now

â€œThe definitive book of the 1970s Pittsburgh Steelersâ€ (Scott Brown, ESPN): A unique literary sports book thatâ€”through exquisite reportage, love, and honestyâ€”tells the full story of the best team to ever play the game.

The Pittsburgh Steelers of the 1970s won an unprecedented and unmatched four Super Bowls in six years. A dozen of those Steelers players, coaches, and executives have been inducted into the Hall of Fame, and three decades later their names echo in popular memory: â€œMeanâ€ Joe Greene, Terry Bradshaw, Franco Harris, Mike Webster, Jack Lambert, Lynn Swann, and John Stallworth. In ways exhilarating and heartbreaking, they define not only the brotherhood of sports but those elements of the game that engage tens of millions of Americans: its artistry and its brutality.

Drawing on hundreds of interviews, Their Lifeâ€™s Work is a richly textured story of a team and a sport, what the game gave these men, and what the game took. It gave fame, wealth, and, above all, a brotherhood of players, twelve of whom died before turning sixty. To a man, they said theyâ€™d do it again, all of it. They bared the soul of the game to Gary Pomerantz, and he captured it wondrously. â€œHere is a book as hard-hitting and powerful as the â€˜Steel Curtainâ€™ dynasty that Pomerantz depicts so deftly. Itâ€™s the NFLâ€™s version of The Boys of Summer, with equal parts triumph and melancholy. Pomerantzâ€™s writing is strong, straightforward, funny, sentimental, and blunt. Itâ€™s as working class and gritty as the men he writes aboutâ€ (The Tampa Tribune, Top 10 Sports Books of 2013).
Country USA
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2013-10-29
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2013-10-29
Format	Kindle eBook

Their Life's Work: The Brotherhood of the 1970s Pittsburgh Steelers, Then and Now

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