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Fighting Chance: An NFL Season With the Seattle Seahawks
368 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 1989
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February 17, 2021
To this day I wonder what made Fred Moody, the author of Fighting Chance, want to write a book about the 1988 Seattle Seahawks.
Yes, that '88 Seahawk team had some good players (receiver Brian Blades, defensive tackle Joe Nash, quarterback Dave Krieg, and others), a great player (running back Curt Warner), a polarizing figure (Brian Bosworth), and a player that used to be great on it (Steve Largent). But when you write a book on a pro football team, that team is supposed to have either Super Bowl aspirations, it's coming off a Super Bowl season, or the team is in the midst of a dynasty. Well, the '88 Seahawks had neither of those things going for them. But somehow Moody felt that they were an interesting enough team to write a 368-page book about.
Fighting Chance ran down the 1988 Seahawks season with game recaps and background stories on some key and even backup players on that team.
Fighting Chance was more than just a chronological book on the 1988 Seahawks season, it was a deep analysis of a team that had its share of ups and downs and wasn't even supposed to win the AFC West. Granted the AFC West was weak in '88, but that still doesn't take away from the fact that that team was one of the feel good stories of the '88 NFL season.
In conclusion, Seahawk and NFL historians were in 1989 (the book's publication year) and today the target demographics of this book. But that still doesn't take away from the fact that there was some very good football journalism within this 32-year old book.
Yes, that '88 Seahawk team had some good players (receiver Brian Blades, defensive tackle Joe Nash, quarterback Dave Krieg, and others), a great player (running back Curt Warner), a polarizing figure (Brian Bosworth), and a player that used to be great on it (Steve Largent). But when you write a book on a pro football team, that team is supposed to have either Super Bowl aspirations, it's coming off a Super Bowl season, or the team is in the midst of a dynasty. Well, the '88 Seahawks had neither of those things going for them. But somehow Moody felt that they were an interesting enough team to write a 368-page book about.
Fighting Chance ran down the 1988 Seahawks season with game recaps and background stories on some key and even backup players on that team.
Fighting Chance was more than just a chronological book on the 1988 Seahawks season, it was a deep analysis of a team that had its share of ups and downs and wasn't even supposed to win the AFC West. Granted the AFC West was weak in '88, but that still doesn't take away from the fact that that team was one of the feel good stories of the '88 NFL season.
In conclusion, Seahawk and NFL historians were in 1989 (the book's publication year) and today the target demographics of this book. But that still doesn't take away from the fact that there was some very good football journalism within this 32-year old book.
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