Product Description

"It was the biggest high you could have. No drugs could match it. The way it felt to run out there with the crowd yelling for you. I wish every kid could experience that."Such was the charmed life of 21-year-old John Ed Bradley, All-SEC center for the Louisiana State University Tigers. But after his final football game, a 34-10 Tiger romp over Wake Forest in the 1979 Tangerine Bowl, he firmly closed the door to his locker and to his past. He moved on, seemingly untouched by the game, to become a successful journalist and novelist.But Bradley couldn't help looking back, and soon that past was right in front of him. After the deaths of his old coach, Charles McClendon, and a fellow lineman, Bradley could no longer fight off his Tiger memories. Twenty-three years later, he still knew the names, weights, and jersey numbers of the teammates he had called brothers, and whom he had been neglecting ever since.It Never Rains in Tiger Stadium is inspired by Bradley's classic essay "The Best Years of His Life," which appears in Sports Illustrated: Fifty Years of Great Writing. It chronicles his rediscovery of the team that he had long forsaken but never forgotten, and his search for forgiveness from teammates who had never forgotten him.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #115857 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-04
• Released on: 2007-09-04
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 304 pages

About the Author
John Ed Bradley is the author of several highly praised novels, including Tupelo Nights and My Juliet. A former staff writer for The Washington Post, Bradley has contributed features to Sports Illustrated, Esquire, and GQ. He lives in Opelousas, Louisiana.

Customer Reviews

Disappointment
This book has its moments, but too few of them. The author, a former LSU football player shares his experiences of playing at LSU and afterwards as he tries to put his days in Baton Rouge behind him and become a writer.
I found it most interesting when he was sharing his experiences as a player. The rest of it is kind of ho hum. I never was too clear on just how much he wanted to stop being an LSU Tiger and how much he wanted to be a writer. He protesth a bit much. He included some really unrelated personal relationship stuff that was not unlike eveyone's experiences. At the end he lapsed into sort of a "what ever happenned to" treatment of former teammates. In the acknowledgements section the author admits that some of the content of the book was taken from earlier articles. It shows.

Wonderful!
A great read for LSU fans or college football fans in general. Great insight and also very well written. As close as most of us will ever get to Saturday night in Tiger Stadium.

Nothing like LSU Football
I could not put this book down! The way he moved back in forth in his life keep me on the edge of my seat to see what was coming next. Thank you Mr. Bradley for this wonderfull book.