Football's Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of the Great Game's Outrageous Characters, Fortunate Fumbles, and Other Oddities

by Floyd Conner

In 1920, the University of Texas Longhorns ate their mascot at a postseason banquet. In 1940, Turk Edwards of the Washington Redskins suffered a career-ending knee injury during the pre-game coin toss. In 1969, Clive Rush was nearly electrocuted while being introduced as the new coach of the Boston Patriots. During the 1893 Army-Navy game, a general punched a heckling admiral and challenged him to a duel, which resulted in President Grover Cleveland suspending the game for six years. Football’s Most Wanted™ features the worst players, the most inept teams, the strangest plays, the most bizarre nicknames, the most fantastic finishes, the dirtiest players, the oddest injures, the greatest upsets, and the most boneheaded calls in both professional and college football. Many of these 700 anecdotes, arranged in 70 top-ten lists, are published here for the first time. Football’s Most Wanted™ features the worst players, the most inept teams, the strangest plays, the most bizarre nicknames, the most fantastic finishes, the dirtiest players, the oddest injures, the greatest upsets, and the most boneheaded calls in both professional and college football. Many of these 700 anecdotes, arranged in 70 top-ten lists, are published here for the first time.

Genres: Sports

400 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2000

Reviews

[Matt Clark · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book had pros and cons but didn't really make me want to read it again. This book was sectioned off into sections such as Draft Busts, Crazy Games, and Greatest Characters. In each section there were different stories of examples of these famous draft busts like Jamarcus Russel or Ryan Leaf who were guys who were drafted very high but ended up not being good at all. Or guys who weren't drafted expected to be any good but turned out to be Hall of Famers like Tom Brady, or Drew Brees. Another topic brought up was biggest blowouts where games were separated by multiple touchdowns. It was a very different style of book and had some facts and stories that sports fans would appreciate but overall, there really was no flow or point of the story because of the format. So I graded this book 3 stars because I felt like even though the facts and stories were cool and helped me learn a little bit there really was no plot or flow because of the style of the book.

[Andrew · Rating 2 out of 5]

The book is full of little factoids about football. Only read if you are a fan.

[Travis · Rating 3 out of 5]

good/awesome