Whether or not you use Twitter, you can’t really say it doesn’t bring fans and athletes closer together. At least it gives us a glimpse of their private lives. Browns linebacker Eric Barton asked through his Twitter account yesterday for some book selections. I think the fine readers at WFNY might be able to help him come up with a few.
The tip was sent in by WFNY reader Mike, who sent the suggestion “Paul Brown: The Man Who Invented Modern Football”. A good suggestion for the former Jet. I added “Browns Town 1964” by Terry Pluto.A nice history lesson I think, don’t you? How about it WFNY community? What should be at the top of the list for one of the Browns’ defensive captains?
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How about the scouting report for the Bears? Maybe he could even pass it along to a few of his teammates. Assuming they have access to something like this, of course.
Horton Hears a Who.
How about reading Vince Lombardi’s book, since Aaron Rodgers had so much fun describing how the Packers studied the Browns gamefilm only to find they ran the exact same defensive sets at the exact same times; nothing was so easy since play-doh. Any notion that Mangini discuises coverages is milk-spewing laughable.
Wow. Isis, this had absolutely nothing to do with Mangini. Shut-up.
‘Curses? Why Cleveland Sports Fans Deserve To Be Miserable: A Lifetime of Tough Breaks, Bad Luck, Dumb Moves, Goofs, Gaffes, and Blunders’ By Tim Long
Art of War, Sun Tzu.
oh come on guys – it wasn’t that bad. i guess you wanted a real book.
how about reading the Bible. Their prayers obviously haven’t been answered yet.
Football For Dummies, 3rd Edition
Howie Long, John Czarnecki
‘Excuses Begone!: How to Change Lifelong, Self-Defeating Thinking Habits’ by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
or how about
‘Get Out of Your Own Way at Work…And Help Others Do the Same: Conquer Self-Defeating Behavior on the Job’ by Mark Goulston
or, better still:
‘The Winners Manual: For the Game of Life’ by Jim Tressel
How to Tackle – by any decent defense in the history of the NFL
“Lost Illusions” by Honore Balzac . . .
The bible?! While I appreciate the joke, I think that book is a bit long…
I suggest some shorter reads including:
Why my teammates love me – K. Bryant (foreward by M. Jordan)
Modern Business Ethics – B. Madoff
Constructive Commentary – Isis
just sayin…
I’m very glad to see that none of you has been inane and immature enough to suggest stupid titles like “Yellow Rivers” by I.P. Daley, “Enraged Lion” by Claude Balz, or “Improve Your Team by Pushing Your Putrid Starting Quarterback Down the Stairs,” by M. Cleaveland. Shows a lot of growth on your part.
Seriously, the greatest book of all time is “Catch-22″ by Joseph Heller.
WAR AND PEACE MOTHAWHAAAAAAA?!
I found “WAR AND PEACE MOTHAWHAAAAAAA” pretentious and yet unintelligible, with a side of pimquillious harnouciousness.
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@ Mr Cleaveland – sorry. I change my suggestion to Pride and Predjudice and Zombies.
Denny, in all seriousness, ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’ is outstanding–it made for great reading on the fights to and from Cleveland this past weekend. Next up: ‘Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters’
@17
An excellent choice, Denny. You just can’t go wrong with the classics.
@18
B-bo, I liked the sequel, “Sense and Sensibility and Cougars” a little better.
has LeBron written anything yet?
Mein Kampf by Adolf Mangini
In all seriousness… The Blind Side by Michael Lewis is good. It’s the Michael Oher story..yet another guy the Browns could have drafted btw.
Any Terry Pluto book is good imo. Browns Town was a good choice.
I keep a list of all known Browns-related books on my blog — 70 of them at last count. For a new Browns player, I highly recommend the heartfelt little paperback “On Being Brown,” consisting of short essays and interviews with fans and former players.