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“The best behind-the-scenes glimpse of pro football ever produced.”—The New York Times“An unprecedented look into the gritty world of professional football. . . . Still the gold standard of sports biographies.”—Sports Illustrated“A classic for its insights into the game and its people, [written] with wit and without scandal or obscenity. . . . A landmark work.”—Los Angeles Times “Groundbreaking. . . . Candid. . . . An uncommonly frank account.”—Chicago Tribune “The first great professional sports diary.”—The Boston Globe“The gold standard for football memoirs. . . . This modern sports classic is a smart, funny and literate diary of the Packers’ successful quest to become the first team to win back-to-back Super Bowl victories.”—The Plain Dealer “This seminal, as-told-to diary . . . changed the way sports readers expected their heroes to sound. No more of this Grantland Rice purple prose. Schaap gave us the tough jock sounding like a real—and witty and introspective and profane—human being.”—Chicago Sun-Times “A must read. . . . An insightful look at the sometimes-maddening methods of Lombardi and the love-hate relationship the players had with the legendary coach.”—Green Bay Press-Gazette “An honest, hilarious and insightful diary, with Lombardi alternately serving as the hero and the villain, the lovable leader and the soul-crushing ogre.”—San Jose Mercury News “This was the book that started it all—for athletes telling their stories, for sportswriters going in depth, for great athletic tales being bound between the covers. Dick Schaap’s classic is timeless. Required reading for anyone who loves sports or sportswriting.”—Mitch Albom“One of the great sports books of all time.” —Billy Crystal“Kramer detailed the 1967 championship season in an understated, respectful tone, but showed a keen eye for details the fan would never glimpse.”—The Baltimore Sun “One of the rarest of things—a sports book written in English by an adult.”—Jimmy Breslin “Daring stuff for its time, revealing how athletes really act, talk and think back when such candor was taboo.”—Charlotte Observer “A no-holds-barred diary. . . . One really gets a sense of the physical, mental and emotional agonies players can go through in a season.”—Orlando Sentinel “[Kramer is] observant, honest, sensitive and a bone-crusher at right guard.”—The Oregonian “The ultimate football diary. . . . Detailed and dramatic. . . . Kramer’s description of his decisive block against Jethro Pugh at the goal line in the waning seconds [of the Ice Bowl] . . . is as fresh and raw as the minus-15-degree weather at kickoff.”—Tampa Tribune “In my life as a writer and reader, there are only a few books that I’ve read over and over again for the sheer pleasure of the experience. Jerry Kramer’s Instant Replay is the only sports book among them. I loved it when I was a teenage, and I love it still today.”—David Maraniss, author of When Pride Still Mattered
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About the Author
Jerry Kramer was a right guard for the Green Bay Packers from 1958 to 1968. During his time with the team, the Packers won five National Championships and Super Bowls I and II. He was inducted into the Green Bay Packer Hall of Fame in 1977. He lives in Boise, Idaho. Dick Schaap (1934–2002), a sportswriter, broadcaster, and author or coauthor of thirty-three books, reported for NBC Nightly News, the Today show, ABC World News Tonight, 20/20, and ESPN and was the recipient of five Emmy Awards.
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Product details
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Anchor; 8/14/11 edition (September 13, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0307743381
ISBN-13: 978-0307743381
Product Dimensions:
5.1 x 0.6 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.8 out of 5 stars
147 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#82,867 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
I'm not sure Vince Lombardi would've succeeded in the NFL of the 21st century. It's a different era of pro football, and that's part of what makes "Instant Replay" so compelling to read in 2012. Times and circumstances have changed over the past 45 years, but human nature hasn't. We may not be able to relate to the era depicted, but we can sure relate to young players struggling to earn their place on the Packers as well as the veterans trying to hold on for one more year before their bodies finally give out and they have to find another way to make a living, all of it under a sometimes maniacal coach who is alternately hated and loved by his players.Jerry Kramer does a great job with "Instant Replay" because he's obviously an intelligent person with interests beyond football, and he's able to share the emotions involved with playing under Lombardi driving them relentlessly to a third straight NFL championship. Although you don't get the same "feel" of the Sixties and its cultural divide that you do in Jim Bouton's "Ball Four" (which in a way makes "Ball Four" seem more dated than this book) the same insight into the human side of players shines through.This is, to many, THE classic book on pro football, but I don't think you have to be a football fan to enjoy it (although Kramer deals a lot with technical aspects of the game). It's as much a people book as it is a football book.
As a pre-teen I read George Plimpton's PAPER LION, and in '68 saw the movie adaptation with Alan Alda (it's still not available on DVD!). A year later I bought the very same paperback version of Jerry Kramer's INSTANT REPLAY that's pictured here. In re-reading it recently after 43 years, it's amazing that I didn't recall any of the book, for it is if anything and without a doubt, memorable.The front cover photo has Jerry sitting with helmet perched above and behind his head. He explains in the book that he couldn't stand wearing this piece of equipment and often removed it during timeouts and measurements. This may not be legal anymore for men on the field. Other changes that have occurred since 1967-68: only four pre-season games instead of six, and sixteen regular vs. fourteen. Running wedges on kickoff returns have been banned. There are far more pre-snap offsides calls, making life miserable for Kramer's linemen descendants.Head coach Vince Lombardi is depicted as a man with two personalities. After games he'd berate players in front of the entire team for making mistakes or not hustling, never with vulgarities, and the next day he'd be extra nice to them, as if feeling guilty for the dressing downs. Lombardi's tactics apparently worked, for his Packers were the first to win three consecutive NFL titles, plus the first two Super Bowls, and after his retirement following the season described here, Green Bay didn't play in another NFC Championship game until 1/14/96, when they lost to the Dallas Cowboys.Because Jerry's cogent thoughts-on-tape weren't altered or enhanced by editor Dìck Schaap, "Instant Replay" is most readable, even for casual fans. Kramer never bogs down in the sort of technical jargon that only color commentator jocks on modern broadcasts can fathom. Instead, he talks about his joys, his annoyances, his little triumphs and big insecurities, both on and off the field. Jerry reveals secret dreams of all offensive linemen: playing quarterback or scoring a touchdown, fantasies almost never fulfilled, and surely as true today as they were so long ago.We learn that playing right guard is a thankless task. You're never noticed when doing a good job, yet you're the goat if a defender gets past you to sack the QB or stop a running play. Linemen on both sides of the ball suffer head to toe bruises and abrasions during a game, but never enough to take them out of the battle. Kramer's skill as a storyteller assures the reader can feel what he does, and experience an entire football season from the sweltering heat of July training camp to sub-zero temps of the NFL Championship against Dallas.This chapter of the book, "End Game," is most vivid, with the Super Bowl victory in Miami almost an afterthought. Kramer's moment in the sun comes two weeks earlier on a freezing cold December 31st, with his team trailing the Cowboys by three points, no timeouts and just seconds on the clock. Rather than go for a tie with a field goal, QB Bart Starr attempts a one yard sneak to the end zone, depending on Jerry to open a hole in the line by blocking Jethro Pugh, a bigger and younger man than he. The play works, Green Bay wins, and Jerry's the hero of the moment. As he describes on page 218:"Over and over and over, perhaps twenty times, the television cameras reran Bart's touchdown and my block on Jethro Pugh. Again and again, millions of people across the country saw the hole open up and saw Bart squeeze through. Millions of people who couldn't name a single offensive lineman if their lives depended on it heard my name repeated and repeated and repeated. All I could think was, 'Thank God for instant replay.'"And thanks too for men like Jerry Kramer, brave souls battered on a weekly basis for the sake of a winning score who are able put into words what it feels like to be part of pro football so well that outsiders can almost experience their trials and what is for the lucky few like Jerry, triumphs.One of the greatest "inside football" books ever, INSTANT REPLAY, despite the passage of time, is a must-read for all of this sport's fans.
As a Gen-Xer, I wasn't around during what was surely an exciting time for football fans. A new league had arisen to challenge the NFL for dominance! Soon it was decided that the Champion of the AFL would play the Champion of the NFL in a special game called the SUPER BOWL. I always wondered what it must have felt like to be in the atmosphere of those first few Super Bowl runs.Jerry Kramer was a Hall of Fame guard for the Packers, and he kept a diary of the '67 season, and their playoff run. Culminating in the Championship game against the Cowboys, the game came down to a final yard with just seconds to play. Reading Jerry's contemporaneous journal entries that he made immediately after the games was exhilarating, and transported me back in time. Jerry's entries also give an inside look at legendary coach Vince Lombardi, who's final game as coach of the Packers came just one week later as Green Bay faced off against the Raiders in just the second ever Super Bowl.If you love the game of football and are interested in its history, this book is required reading.
Along with Jim Bouton's Ball Four, Instant Replay may well be one of the most important sports books ever written. While the book is as much about Vince Lombardi as the Green Bay Packers, and is virtually a paean to the Coach, Kramer also pulls the curtain aside from the inner workings of the locker room, and the experience of being a professional athlete, albeit in a different era. Very readable and entertaining, Kramer is not just a grunt, and in fact resents the stereotype of the "dumb jock." He is articulate, witty, and smart. He is also humble and likeable.
Many football players are stereotyped as "dumb jocks". Jerry Kramer emphatically dispels that myth with this fantastic work of literature which has stood the test of time. The future Hall of Fame right guard gives the reader unprecedented insider access to one of the great teams in National Football League history, led by its iconic coach and buttressed by several men who now have a bronze bust in Canton. With Kramer now in the Hall of Fame, every football fan should read (or re-read) Instant Replay. That goes without saying if you are a Cheesehead.
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