Get Your Own Damn Beer, I'm Watching the Game! A Woman's Guide to Loving Pro Football

by Peete, Holly Robinson; Paisner, Daniel; Lott, Ronnie

• ISBN13: 9781594861635
• ISBN10: 1594861633
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-08-15
• Publisher: Rodale Books

Summary

Year after year, Sunday afternoons and Monday nights during the NFL season have belonged to men. While they cheer and argue play calls, the women in their lives are relegated to beer and chip detail. It's time for these women to join the action, and Holly Robinson Peete, star of21 Jump Street,For Your Love, andHangin' with Mr. Cooper, and wife of NFL quarterback Rodney Peete, has written this hip, smart, cheerful guide to help them do so. Peete shares her infectious enthusiasm for pro football and takes the complexity out of the game by breaking it down to its component parts. She explains the role of each position player, provides a rundown of all on-field penalties and referees' hand signals, and offers an illustrated guide to some of the most common plays in the NFL. She gives her take on the most memorable plays in NFL history and dishes some inside dirt-in a breezy, girl-talkin' narrative that promises to turn the novice spectator into a well-informed football fanatic.

Author Biography

HOLLY ROBINSON PEETE is one of the best-loved actresses on television and a lifelong, diehard football fan. Holly frequently appears on Fox Sports' Best Damn Sports Show. She currently resides in Los Angeles.

DANIEL PAISNER is the author of more than 25 books on topics ranging from business and sports to politics and entertainment. He is also one of the busiest collaborators in publishing, having worked on books with Whoopi Goldberg, Montel Williams, Willard Scott, and other celebrities. He currently resides in Port Washington, New York.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Why Are We Here?
An Introduction	1	(8)
Cheat Sheet: 10 All-Time Annoying Things We Should Never Say to Our Men during the Game
Where It All Began (for Me)
Bleeding Eagles Green	9	(18)
Cheat Sheet: 10 All-Time Greats of the Game (pre-1970)
Kickoff
Terms of Engagement	27	(22)
Cheat Sheet: 10 All-Time Greats of the Game (post-1970)
Assume the Position
Who Are These Guys?	49	(22)
Cheat Sheet: 10 All-Time Great Football Names
Three Teams in One
Finding Order in the Chaos	71	(16)
Cheat Sheet: 10 All-Time Great Coaches of the Game
Play-by-Play
Getting Beyond Xs and Os	87	(28)
Cheat Sheet: 10 All-Time Great Super Bowls
Don't Touch My Remote
We Fans and Our Routines	115	(16)
Cheat Sheet: 10 All-Time Great Moments
Desperate Housewives
What It's Like to Be Married to the Game	131	(18)
Cheat Sheet: 10 All-Time Great Football Movies
Standards of Excellence
What It Means to Succeed	149	(22)
Cheat Sheet: 10 All-Time Great Football Butts
Team Histories
A Short Course	171	(38)
Cheat Sheet: 10 More All-Time Annoying Things We Should NeverSay to Our Men during the Game
And (Finally!) the Ultimate Cheat Sheet
A Glossary of Terms	209	(14)
Index	223