The Impossible Team: The Worst to First Patriots' Super Bowl Season

by Nick Cafardo, Adam Vinatieri (Foreword by), Troy Brown (Introduction)

Overview

Nick Cafardo was there every step of the way in the 2001 season when the New England Patriots went from being worst in their division the previous year to Super Bowl champions. Learn the inside stories behind Drew Bledsoe's life-threatening injury and Tom Brady's unexpected rise along with many other stories not previously shared.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781617493751
Publisher:	Triumph Books
Publication date:	09/01/2002
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	710 KB

About the Author

Nick Cafardo has covered the Patriots for the Boston Globe since 1996. Prior to that, he spent 15 years covering the Boston Red Sox for the Globe and the Quincy Patriot Ledger. He's the author of None but the Braves with Tom Glavine and was Boston Magazine's choice for Boston's Best Sportswriter in 1994. Adam Vinatieri is an NFL placekicker currently playing for the Indianapolis Colts. He won a Super Bowl in 2006 with Indianapolis and won Super Bowls in 2001, 2003, and 2004 with the Patriots. Troy Brown is a former NFL wide receiver, cornerback, and punt returner who played his entire 15-year career with the New England Patriots.

Editorial Reviews

Boston Globe sportswriter Cafardo has probably been waiting his whole life to write this book. It shows: the level of detail he gives for every event of the entire 2001-02 season (and preseason, for that matter) is matched only by the access he seems to have had to the Patriots' organization. From the front office and owner Bob Kraft to the competition between the second- and third-string quarterbacks, Cafardo does not leave out a single second of the Patriots' championship series. There are good sections on the media's refusal to see the Patriots as real contenders as well as a very detailed section about troubled receiver Terry Glenn. This is not recommended for academic libraries, as students and researchers probably will not need Cafardo's encyclopedic rendering of the season, but public libraries with strong patron interest in the NFL or the Patriots themselves should strongly consider.-James Miller, Springfield Coll. Lib., MA

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