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It Never Rains in Tiger Stadium: Football and the Game of Life | 
 enlarge | Author: John Ed Bradley
Publisher: ESPN
Category: Book
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Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 107418
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 304
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 1933060336
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.33263092
EAN: 9781933060330
ASIN: 1933060336
Publication Date: September 4, 2007
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"It was the biggest high you could have. No drugs could match it. The way it felt to run out there with the crowd yelling for you. I wish every kid could experience that." Such was the charmed life of 21-year-old John Ed Bradley, All-SEC center for the Louisiana State University Tigers. But after his final football game, a 34-10 Tiger romp over Wake Forest in the 1979 Tangerine Bowl, he firmly closed the door to his locker and to his past. He moved on, seemingly untouched by the game, to become a successful journalist and novelist. But Bradley couldn t help looking back, and soon that past was right in front of him. After the deaths of his old coach, Charles McClendon, and a fellow lineman, Bradley could no longer fight off his Tiger memories. Twenty-three years later, he still knew the names, weights, and jersey numbers of the teammates he had called brothers, and whom he had been neglecting ever since. It Never Rains in Tiger Stadium is inspired by Bradley s classic essay "The Best Years of His Life," which appears in Sports Illustrated: Fifty Years of Great Writing. It chronicles his rediscovery of the team that he had long forsaken but never forgotten, and his search for forgiveness from teammates who had never forgotten him.
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 It gave me goose bumps, Go Tigers. November 11, 2008
B. Breeland
If you are a fan of college football, this if a must read book! If you want much more than a football story, THIS IS THE ONE!
I could not put this book down, it literally gave me goose bumps. If you ever played football you will find this book chilling. This is a absolute must read for Tiger fans and all fans of football. This book is so well written and depicts what goes on before, during and after a football career. Don't miss this book!
 Not what I expected November 4, 2008
T. McDonald
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was hoping for a more "behind the scenes" view from this former player from LSU. What I got was a book from an author that could never let go of the past. He goes on and on about his last years at LSU like it is the end of his life. That was college,life goes on. John Ed Bradley has some serious mental issues and this book just proves that fact.
If you are looking for a book about what it was really like to play for LSU,then skip this book.
If You Don't Cry, You're Not a Football Fan September 16, 2008
Andrew Shaffer (Gotham City, USA)
Bradley has written a thoughtful, somber, and poetic memoir that reads as the flip-side to Jason Peter's drug-fueled Hero of the Underground. Every page is brimming with emotion, whether it's love or hate of the game of football. While the cover prominently features an LSU logo and colors, don't be fooled--this book is for all college football fans, not just LSU fans.
As some other reviewers have commented, there's not much action here, so it's not a rip-roaring read--it doesn't ever fully grip the reader in its clutches. This is partially due to the non-linear format. The chapters aren't ordered like a plot, and some readers may lose interest because of that. Could Bradley be too good of a writer for football fans to handle? I hope not.
The fact that the book is still so good in spite of its relative calm is a testament to its sharp writing. Bradley didn't win a Superbowl or a college National Championship; in fact, he never even tried out for the NFL. In the end, it doesn't matter: "It Never Rains..." is one of the best football books that I've ever read. Instead of a football player who happens to write, John Ed Bradley is a writer who happened to play football.
Disappointment July 1, 2008
A Southern Reader (New Orleans, LA United States)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book has its moments, but too few of them. The author, a former LSU football player shares his experiences of playing at LSU and afterwards as he tries to put his days in Baton Rouge behind him and become a writer.
I found it most interesting when he was sharing his experiences as a player. The rest of it is kind of ho hum. I never was too clear on just how much he wanted to stop being an LSU Tiger and how much he wanted to be a writer. He protesth a bit much. He included some really unrelated personal relationship stuff that was not unlike eveyone's experiences. At the end he lapsed into sort of a "what ever happenned to" treatment of former teammates. In the acknowledgements section the author admits that some of the content of the book was taken from earlier articles. It shows.
Wonderful! January 23, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A great read for LSU fans or college football fans in general. Great insight and also very well written. As close as most of us will ever get to Saturday night in Tiger Stadium.
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