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| Moving the Chains: Tom Brady and the Pursuit of Everything | 
 enlarge | Author: Charles P. Pierce
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 54478
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.3 x 0.7
ISBN: 0374214441
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.332092
EAN: 9780374214449
ASIN: 0374214441
Publication Date: October 16, 2007
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Product Description
When Tom Brady entered the 2005 NFL season as lead quarterback for the New England Patriots, the defending Super Bowl champions, he was hailed as the best to ever play the position. And with good reason: he was the youngest quarterback to ever win a Super Bowl; the only quarterback in NFL history to win three Super Bowls before turning twenty-eight; the fourth player in history to win multiple Super Bowl MVP awards. He started the season with a 57–14 record, the best of any NFL quarterback since 1966.
Award-winning sports journalist Charles P. Pierce’s Moving the Chains explains how Brady reached the top of his profession and how he stays there. It is a study in highly honed skills, discipline, and making the most of good fortune, and is shot through with ironies—a sixth-round draft pick turned superstar leading a football dynasty that was once so bedraggled it had to play a home game in Birmingham, Alabama, because no stadium around Boston would have it. It is also about an ordinary man and an ordinary team becoming extraordinary. Pierce interviewed Brady’s friends, family, coaches, and teammates. He interviewed Brady (notably for Sports Illustrated’s 2005 Sportsman of the Year cover article). And then he got the one thing he needed to truly take Brady’s measure: 2005 turned out to be the toughest Patriots season in five years.
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 Good but not great February 18, 2008
First, the book is easy to read, it is interesting, the author has a good humour. This is a good beginning for any newcomer to the world of NFL.
The style is ok, there are some great stories of the players of Patriots, but the author handles the subject of the book as a person without any mistakes, someone on a par with Mother Theresa. Brady is a great player and a great man, but there are too many words on his greatness, his ability to play as a teammate.
 Patriots' QB December 22, 2007
I found this book to be very interesting and a must read for every No. 12 jersey wearing Patriots' fan! It tells about the rise of Tom Brady and how he came to become the legend that he is through his hard work and dedication. It went behind the scenes of just what he does on the playing field and went into his personal life which I thought was interesting. It's a must read for every Patriots fan. It goes quick and I'm sure it will be enjoyed.
Gerard Zemek
husband of author of "My Funny Dad, Harry"
not what i expected November 22, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
this book is not the typical football book in which details of football startegy are dissected and analyzed.Instead it deals with how Tom Brady developed as an QB thru high school,the trials and tribulations of his days at Michigan and finally his arrival to the NFL and his eventual taking over the reins of the Patriots and the rest is history.Its not an book I would recommend for anyone looking for pure football strategy its more of an comprehensive look at an young qbs development thru several different areas
Not THAT greatly written, but about the best QB by far in the NFL today! August 30, 2007
As an aside, the other good book that talks
a lot about Tom Brady is Charlie Wies fine
book, "No Excuses". Brady simply is the best
QB of his generation in the NFL and not a
Media creation like P. Manning, who will
never be fit to carry out Braids garbage!
I rate Brady as the seventh best QB in Pro
Football history right now, behind only:
John Elway, Dan Marino, Joe Montana, Phil
Simms, Warren Moon and Johnny Unitas. Fol-
lowed by; Doug Flutie, Russ Jackson, Otto
Graham, Terry Bradshaw, Roger Staubach
and Bob Griese. Flutie, Moon and especially
the Canadian Jackson did their best work
in the equally good CFL, which predates
the NFL by 11 years. Messy somewhat in
the writing style of the co-author, but
Brady in his own words is very good. Who
wants to bet when the smoke clears that
Brady will NOT be the best QB ever? I
wouldn't! Probably two more Super Bowls
coming his way in '09 and 2010!
Charlie Pierce scores big - again July 24, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
One of the best sports writers ever, Charlie once again writes with precision and incredible depth using the spontaneous wit that earmarks his writng style. Whether you are a Patriots fan, a Brady wannabee, or a curious west-coaster, you will find this book difficult to put down. I bought copies for myself, my 89yo father-in-law, my 35 yo son, and my 11yo grandson...all were pleased with comments ranging from "a great sports biograpy' to "Yowzer awesome".
In the pursuit for everything, Peirce wins.
5 stars for sure
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