Rude Behavior

by Dan Jenkins

Dan Jenkins' uproarious comedic novels deliver barrels of belly laughs. Former football star Billy Clyde Puckett's raunchy humor and obsession with the game collide head first when he founds his own NFL expansion team in West Texas.

Genres: Humor, Fiction, Sports, Football, Novels

Audible Audio

First published September 15, 1998

About the author

Dan Jenkins was an American author and sportswriter, most notably for Sports Illustrated.

Jenkins was born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas, where he attended R.L. Paschal High School and Texas Christian University (TCU), where he played on the varsity golf team. Jenkins worked for many publications including the Fort Worth Press, Dallas Times Herald, Playboy, and Sports Illustrated. In 1985 he retired from Sports Illustrated and began writing books full-time and maintained a monthly column in Golf Digest magazine.

Larry King called Jenkins "the quintessential Sports Illustrated writer" and "the best sportswriter in America." Jenkins authored numerous works and over 500 articles for Sports Illustrated. In 1972, Jenkins wrote his first novel, Semi-Tough.

His daughter, Sally Jenkins, is a sports columnist for the Washington Post.

Reviews

[Jeff P · Rating 4 out of 5]

I picked this up a few days after Mr. Jenkins passed away. It's the further story of Billy Clyde Puckett and them. It's very funny and stridently non-PC. I don't know how long it's been since the movie 'Semi-Tough' came out, but I still could see Burt Reynolds as Billy Clyde. The ending was maybe a little bit predictable, but by that point who cares. Dan Jenkins is a writer that will be truly missed.

[Lori · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great football story

This is another explosively funny Dan Jenkins book. We all will miss him. Today no one would be able to be so politically incorrect!

[Mark · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wow! It's been a while since I read "Semi Tough, which I thoroughly enjoyed, and the late Dan Jenkins did it again...Definitely, no WOKE filter here...I really doubt, like Mel Brooks' movies or Zucker-Abrams-Zucker movies, "Rude Behavior" could be published in today's climate and we are a sorrier society because of it...The politically incorrect humor is just laugh-out-loud, explosively funny...We catch up to Billy Clyde Puckett and Shake Tiller in their post-football lives as Billy Clyde pursues NFL ownership...LOVED IT!!!

[Dennis Osborne · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a reread of Jenkins's follow-up to semi tough. Not as good as the first, but still entertaining

[Brandon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another Billy Clyde Puckett parody of football, life, America.

[Bob Box · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read in 1998. Exuberant tale of football and other excesses.

[Jim Kokocki · Rating 1 out of 5]

Read 80 pages. Crap terminology, slow to get to whatever plot eventually emerges.

[Briana · Rating 1 out of 5]

The third in the Semi-Tough trilogy - horrible, horrible, horrible. Re-read "Life Its Ownself" again instead.

[Joe Faust · Rating 3 out of 5]

I wanted a laugh. The book delivered.

[Pablo]

NFL expansion: Hawaii vs Mexico City vs London vs West Texas

[Larry Laurent]

One of the funniest books ever. Political correct is totally forgotten.