Great, great article

Mr. Moneyball hit one out of the park with this one. If you've got the time for it, it's a pretty damn good one.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/29/sports/playmagazine/1029play_parcells.html?hp&ex=1162008000&en=00292a0d8a8a5745&ei=5094&partner=homepage

 

I liked it a lot.

But you know what this board will do instead? Keep gnashing teeth over some nobody columnist going to some Web site.

 

thanks.

that was good. There have been several good articles in Play magazine recently.

 

What is Play Magazine?

 

NYT sports magazine

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/sports/playmagazine/

 

Wow. That was great. I wonder how he convinced Parcells to grant him the access.

 

Very well done piece. Really drives home how devoid of any meaning this guy's life is beyond football.

 

In an ideal world, this board would be good for writers such as Michael Lewis to come on and explain the inner workings of a story. I'm only on page 2, but I'm fascinated by how human Lewis has made Parcells appear. All I have seen from Parcells this year is his short, apparently angry relationship with the media. Then some stranger swoops in and gets all this. Magnificent piece, and I'm not even near done.

 

fine piece on a really intriguing character.

i remember when parcells first took over the jets. i got him in a hallway at the jets' building and asked him: "why do you keep doing this?"

he looked at me, shook his head and said, "i dunno -- i guess i'm just a sick bastard."

that about sums it up.

he looks awfully detached lately, though. looks like the whole t.o.-jerry jones sideshow has robbed parcells of a lot of his passion.

 

Alma, baby ... we miss you.

I wouldn't come off as at all preachy if you were still around full-time.

 

What Lewis does is what too few sportswriters do: he trusts the material. No melodrama, no excess, no shtick, no flair for flair's sake. Solid reporting, good thinking, and clear, clean writing -- the time-honored formula for rendering complex subjects simply. It's journalism at its best (to be excessive myself; I mean, it's a profile, not low doings in high places, but you know what I mean).

 

That's a good way of putting it, Dave.

He trusts the material.

Interesting piece. Man, does Parcells sound like a miserable SOB.