Déjà Blue, The New York Giants' 2011 Championship Season; Costello, Hamilton, Schwartz, Serb, Willis, & Vaccaro; photographs by Charles Wenzelberg; The New York Post [Triumph Books LLC](2012)
The photos are uniformly excellent (some are amazingly good) & the writing is very good*.
But what burns me up & what lowered the rating is that the book has none of the box scores for the games played - regular, playoffs, & the Super Bowl itself (played on February 5, 2012, with the Giants beating the New England Patriots, 21-17).
How hard would it have been for the Post sports department to include what they own & what would be instantly retrievable from their own files?
Even if the book was a rush job, tops, it would have taken one entire day to weave this information into the book.
Heck, even the ditzy Gisele Bundchen (Brazo-German for "Shelf life going, going, gone"; NE QB Tom Brady's girlfriend) could have taken care of this without a hitch.
*****
Congratulations! Get Lost! - Photos & story comments about the valuable/volatile NYG running back Brandon Jacobs are plentiful.
On March 9, 2012 - A mere five weeks after he earned his 2nd Giants Super Bowl ring & rode in the victory parade up Broadway in New York City (an avenue that is currently off-limits for Iraq & Afghanistan military vets) - he's cut from the team.
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*The New York Daily News is never going to be competitive with the Post in this respect. With the preening, fidgety Mike Lupica hogging all the prime time print space, by default, other staff writers are offered the lesser opportunities while Mike continues to hand in his I-Know-Everything columns (apparently, printed verbatim).
Warning: Things Change.
The protective distance between the two ideologically-opposed tabloids cannot be considered insurmountable.
Who prior to January 2012 thought that the vacant editor-in-chief's seat at the NY Daily News would be awarded to a scandal-saturated veteran editor of the British Murdoch tabloids, Colin Myler?
Vegas odds on the possibility of rehabilitated sports reporter Rebekah Brooks covering the 2014 Super Bowl in East Rutherford are pending.