Meat on the Hoof (Dell #5584) |  | Author: Gary Shaw
Publisher: Dell
Category: Book
Buy Used: $9.99
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 817095
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Edition: 1st
Publication Date: 1973
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Condition: Reading copy, pages clean and tight, cover shows wear and corner creases, moisture stain on one corner do not extend into type and do not produce waves/wrinkles
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Quoted From the Back Cover July 9, 2008
"Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Kill, Kill...
...rush of noise, the frenzied crowd...they have spent a week getting up for the game. They've been stepped on, humiliated, shamed, punished, degraded. They are ready to play football.
Kill, Kill, Kill EEEAAGH! EEEAAAGH!"
Yes, that is EEEAAGH with three e's!
This is a minor American sports classic -- the heralded memoir of "the hidden world" of Texas football, by Gary Shaw, pumped up by Dell in some fairly exploitative packaging. Blurbs praise Shaw's accuracy and candor. In the early 1970's there were a lot of tell-all books about American sports as yesterday's golden sports heros became flawed (and sometimes groovy and sometimes druggy) anti-heros. Shaw's memoir survives today because of the quality of his observations, not due to the the outrageousness of his claims.
And you've got to love the title.
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