From the No.1 bestselling writer 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 – with its celebrity players, billionaire owners, and cheerleaders with perfect teeth – is usually more American than apple pie. Which is why the celebrated NY Times journalist, Tag Leibovich, has selected football as the automobile by which to examine the stressed state 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 in the NFL than anyone has gone before. In the owners’ meeting to the draft to the sidelines of crucial video games, he consumes the show on the elbow of everybody from Tom Brady to big-name owners to the cordially despised NFL Commissioner, Roger Goodell.Ultimately, this is a story of what will come to be observed simply because ‘peak football’ – the high point of the sport’s economic success and cultural dominance, but also as soon as when the dark side started to show. It is an era of explosive income growth, as deluxe new stadiums sprout from coast to coast, but also one of creeping existential fear. Football was by no means thought to be easy on the body – players joke darkly the fact that NFL means ‘not really for lengthy’ for good cause – but as the true effect of concussions become inescapable background noise, it’s become increasingly difficult to enjoy the simple glory of football without the buzzkill of its apparent consequences.

Which was before Donald Trump. In 2016, the NFL slammed headlong into America’s tradition wars. Big Video game is a trip through an epic surprise. Through everything, Leibovich always maintains one attention on Tom Brady and his cherished Patriots, to the 2018 Super Dish. Pro football, this amusing and enthralling book proves, may possibly not be the activity America needs, but it is most surely the activity it deserves.