In preparation for the four-day feast of turkey and football, the Huffington Post has compiled a list of nine football books for when you want to rest your eyes on the printed page instead of the TV screen. I’m thrilled for Carry the Rock to have been inlcuded with Paper Lion, The Blind Side and Friday Night Lights. One of my own additions would have been Willie Morris’s The Courting of Marcus Dupree, about the transcendent Mississippi high school running back who was the recent subject of one of ESPN’s 30-for-30 documentaries, The Best That Never Was. It brings the story to the present day and is well worth watching - touching, sad and hopeful, all at the same time.
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