Jenkins' Semi-Memoir

It will be great to read the real-life stories that Jenkins parodied in "You Gotta Play Hurt." Especially if he doesn't pull his punches. And I'd I'd have to guess Jenkins won't be pulling punches.

 

That is so good. So good.
I love Jenkins during the Majors. His tweets are a must follow.
And he definitely doesn't use them in his copy the next day.

 

Next up on the reading list. When he was on his game, he never wrote a bad sentence.

He can be forgiven for his worship of Hogan. We all had our heroes.

Alan Page was the greatest player to put on shoulder pads. I will not argue that.

"Jack Nicklaus, comma ... "

 

Quite possibly the greatest paragraph ever written:

 

Actually, that paragraph sucks. Jenkins is not at his best when he rips editors.

 

That's "Joe Montana, comma ..." but it works for Jack, too.

My favorite part is Jim Tom wanting to buy a glass bottom car so he can see the look on the guy's face when he runs him down.

 

Lol @ disliking Dan Jenkins.

 

I like Jenkins. But writers shouldn't rip editors.

 

I was referring to the OP.

 

Fox News “the only news program network that doesn’t seem to hate America” / Dan Jenkins

 

One of the greatest ledes in the history of SI:


Stoop-Shouldered and sinisterly handsome, he slouches against the wall of the saloon, a filter cigarette in his teeth, collar open, perfectly happy and self-assured, gazing through the uneven darkness to sort out the winners from the losers. As the girls come by wearing their miniskirts, net stockings, big false eyelashes, long pressed hair and soulless expressions, he grins approvingly and says, "Hey, hold it, man—foxes." It is Joe Willie Namath at play. Relaxing. Night-timing. The boss mover studying the defensive tendencies of New York's off-duty secretaries, stewardesses, dancers, nurses, Playboy bunnies, actresses, shopgirls—all of the people who make life stimulating for a bachelor who can throw one of the best passes in pro football. He poses a question for us all: Would you rather be young, single, rich, famous, talented and happy—or president?