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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Tailgate to Heaven: A British NFL Fan Tackles America

Tailgate to Heaven: A British NFL Fan Tackles America

Goldstein, Adam

Paperback

FootballSports General

Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 1612347088
ISBN13: 9781612347080
Publisher: Potomac Books
Published: Sep 15 2014
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.83 Width: 6.01 Depth: 9.12
Language: English
Despite a global recession, Englishman Adam Goldstein felt 2008 was the perfect time to invest in his lifelong passion. So he sold his apartment and left his job and girlfriend in London for American football. Goldstein's goal was to achieve what no other fan of American football has accomplished: to attend one live National Football League (NFL) game at every NFL stadium during the regular season, plus those played in London and Canada. He traveled more than sixty-five thousand miles to watch forty football games in eighteen weeks and to experience and understand the phenomenal appeal of that classic American pastime, the tailgate party. He drove from stadium to stadium, tailgate to tailgate, sometimes eight hundred miles a day, digesting everything that American football could serve up. He met players and extreme fans alike and was party to surreal pregame rituals while absorbing the rich cultural differences of each part of the country. During his football odyssey--a grueling yet rewarding quest--he compared sports traditions and fandom in the United Kingdom and the United States. Tailgate to Heaven is a humorous, moving, and inspiring story about how nothing closes a culture gap like love of a sport--and the camaraderie that comes with it.

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