Disclaimer: I received this product for free for a review and my honest opinion
Pigskin Rapture team captures the sights, sounds, and smells of a state smitten with football, from K-D’s Barbecue in Midland, to the rarefied air of Cowboys owner Jerry Jones’s private box in AT & T Stadium. Here, too, are the more subtle and occasionally unseen manifestations of Texas football culture, such as a homeless man who resides on a practice field in Houston; the cavernous remains of the Astrodome; the proud high school where Andrew Luck played; the Australian woman who made the Cowboy’s cheer leading squad, having never watched an NFL game; and the hangover a West Texas town continues to endure nearly three decades following the publication of Friday Night Lights. It is an amazing book that I have enjoyed reading it goes into great detail about football in Texas.
In Autumn 2015, both of Texas’s NFL teams played at home on different days, a major high school rivalry was set for Friday night in West Texas, and a fierce regional rivalry came to the Cotton Bowl on Saturday afternoon. Sports journalist Mac Engel and photographer Ron Jenkins and his assistant Michael Ainsworth take the ultimate football road trip: from a Texans game in Houston to Odessa to cover Permian High School’s homecoming game, then to Dallas to take in Texas versus Oklahoma in the Cotton Bowl, followed by every Texan’s Sunday ritual, the Dallas Cowboys at home against perhaps the best quarterback in a generation . This is a must read book for any Texan or any football fan and you will not be disappointed.
With hundreds of stunning full-color photographs and meticulous reporting on the games and events, this book provides both die-hard and casual football fans everything they need to feel part of the action! You can purchase it on Amazon.
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