On December 28, 1958, the brand new York Giants and Baltimore Colts met beneath the lighting of Yankee Stadium for the season’s NFL Championship game. Football, growing in popularity amid America’s post-war financial increase, was still significantly over-shadowed with the country’s preferred pastime – football – however the 1958 tournament proved to be the turning point for pro soccer. In the field and roaming the sidelines were seventeen future Hall of Famers, including Colts superstars Johnny Unitas, Raymond Berry, and about The Best Game Ever Gino Marchetti, and Giants greats Frank Gifford, Sam Huff, and associate coaches Vince Lombardi and Tom Landry. Played on a freezing Sunday night in front of 64,000 followers and around forty-five million television viewers around the united states – at that time the largest crowd to have ever watched a football video game – the championship would become the first sudden-death contest in NFL history. With two moments left in rules, Baltimore had possession deep in its territory, as well as the ball in the hands from the still unproven quarterback Johnny Unitas. The Best Game Ever can be a brilliant portrait of what sort of single game transformed the history of American sports activities. Published to coincide using the fiftieth anniversary of the championship, it is destined to be always a sports classic.