NFL Off-Camera

During his four-decade career at NFL Films, writing and directing segments for weekly highlight shows and national telecasts, Bob Angelo saw and heard things thatnever made their way into his productions.Now, inThe NFL Off-Camera, Angelo mines the thousands of interviews he conducted to compile a revealing collection of short, insightful essays profiling his favorite-and least favorite-pro football players, coaches, team owners, executives,and broadcasters-all of whom he interacted with personally. Angelo effuses about his meeting with the larger-than-life Jim Brown and appreciates the trash talking John Randle. He poignantly reflects on "Bullet" Bob Hayes, the world's fastest man who "could not outrunhis demons," and showcases the mercurial Duane Thomas and the free-wheeling Tony Siragusa.The NFL Off-Camerareveals why Angelo sparred with Hall-of-Fame player turned broadcaster Frank Gifford and demonstrates why Super Bowl champion head coach Sean Payton is his "least favoriteperson in pro football." From Jared Allen to Jim Zorn,The NFL Off-Cameraexplores nearly 100 ofthe game's outsized personalities and debunks some of football's mostenduring myths. Angelo's original, unfiltered look at Pro Football isas hard-hitting and exciting as any one of his NFL Films.