20 out of 101: Get your own damn beer, I'm watching the game!: A Woman's Guide to Loving Pro Football

Synopsis:
Year after year, Sunday afternoons and Monday nights during the NFL season have belonged to men. While they cheer and argue play calls, the women in their lives are relegated to beer and chip detail. It's time for these women to join the action, and Holly Robinson Peete, star of 21 Jump Street, For Your Love, and Hangin' with Mr. Cooper, and wife of NFL quarterback Rodney Peete, has written this hip, smart, cheerful guide to help them do so.Peete shares her infectious enthusiasm for pro football
and takes the complexity out of the game by breaking it down to its component parts. She explains the role of each position player, provides a rundown of all on-field penalties and referees' hand signals, and offers an illustrated guide to some of the most common plays in the NFL. She gives her take on the most memorable plays in NFL history and dishes some inside dirt-in a breezy, girl-talkin' narrative that promises to turn the novice spectator into a well-informed football fanatic.

Well I thought I'd really enjoy this book since I already love pro-football (Especially my San Diego Chargers!) but honestly I thought this book was a little much. Who really needs all of this information? Just to enjoy the game of football. While there were a few things I found interesting, I certainly could go without knowing the entire history of each and every NFL team. And I could go without hearing how difficult it is to be the wife of a quaterback. (Yeah, because you know they only get paid a TON of money!) And because it's so stressful for her as a quaterback's wife to watch her hubby play. Okay, I acknowledge that football is a physical game and that there is always that risk involved... but as much as I love football I find it ridiculous that they get paid astronomical amounts just to play a game. I'm sure the wife of any soldier (or service member in general) would agree that it's much more stressful to send your loved one off to war, worrying about their safety, and yet they get paid so little for putting their life on the line for their country that the majority of military families literally live pay check to pay check.

I wouldn't recommend this book to people (unless of course you're writing a report on football, LOL, cuz like I said it's filled with lots of useless history). Just enjoy the game for what it is. You don't need a book like this to love football. If anything I think it would turn a lot of new fans off.