Playing for Pizza, (Paperback)

from andsoitgoes

John Grisham is one of those few writers who can leave his money making genre and write a great story in another genre. Playing for Pizza is a nice, interesting story about a NFL player who decides, after a disastrous season, to play football americano (American Football)in Italy. The characters ...

from TigerLMS

Rick Dockery's football career never amounted to much. He played for 8 NFL teams in 6 years, almost always as a third-string quarterback. He didn't gain national attention until he managed to blow a game that Cleveland had wrapped up-- a title game that would've sent the Browns to the Super Bowl....

from SNSWOODS

Football in Italy. John Grisham expresses a knowledge of the game and the culture. NFL-failure Rick Dockery is a jerk. Rick Dockery is the opposite. Romance, cuisine and architecture. Grisham gives attention to detail. The series of events make it a great story.

from SqueakyChu

I admit that I only picked up this John Grisham CD in my library because I could not find another CD with a narrator I could easily understand (I am hearing impaired). After reluctantly placing this disc into my CD player, what I found was a most engaging story. Agreed that some of it was not tot...

from lrobe190

Quarterback, Rick Dockery, manages to ruin his team's chances to play in the Superbowl and becomes totally unemployable in the NFL. His manager finds him a spot as a quarterback for the Parma Panthers in Italy. Rick desperately wants to continue playing football, so he accepts. Initially skeptica...