"Pat Toomay has mixed fact and fiction to produce a story that will make every armchair quarterback laugh and wince-and worry at his exposition of "the game's" most insidious reality: the prospect - on any given Sunday-of a fix." -John Seigenthaler, USA Today "Toomay, for many years a lineman with the Cowboys and the Raiders, gives a sinister turn to the old saw that 'on any given Sunday, one team can beat another'. . . . He writes knowledgeably about football: its strategy, the pain, the respect and hatred between the men in the trenches." -Publishers Weekly
"Pat Toomay has mixed fact and fiction to produce a story that will make every armchair quarterback laugh and wince-and worry at his exposition of "th...
"A wry, witty look at life with the Dallas Cowboys during the heyday of Tom Landry and Roger Staubach, The Crunch shows the real life that makes legends and lacerates the Cowboys mechanistic corporate image, revealing a world that is both more and less than we expect, yet funnier than we could image." -Peter Gent, author of North Dallas Forty "More characters than War and Peace. More laughs than Laugh-In. . . . A pro football classic " -Frank Luksa, The Dallas Morning News
"A wry, witty look at life with the Dallas Cowboys during the heyday of Tom Landry and Roger Staubach, The Crunch shows the real life that makes legen...