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“The Best Game Ever: Giants V. Colts, 1958” Book Review
Published by C Douglas Baker on April 1, 2009
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Indianapolis Colts
The Best Game Ever: Giants vs. Colts, 1958, and the Birth of the Modern NFL
By Mark Bowden
The Best Game Ever is a fairly good account of what is probably the most famous game in NFL history—the 1958 NFL Championship game where the Baltimore Colts defeated the New York Giants 23-17 in the NFL’s first sudden death overtime game.
The game pitted some of the greatest players of all time against one another, such as Johnny Unitas and Raymond Berry of the Colts and Frank Gifford and Sam Huff of the Giants.
It also sported three legendary coaches: Vince Lombardi on offense for the Giants, Tom Landry on defense for the Giants, and Weeb Ewbank, the head coach of Baltimore who went on to win another seminal NFL Championship when his New York Jets upset his former team, the Baltimore Colts, in Super Bowl III.
As most who follow football closely know, this game is considered the launching point of the modern...
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