Ruffians: A Novel

By Tim Green

Book Overview

In pro football, history forgets who finishes second. Humphrey Lyles, owner of the dismal Birmingham Ruffians, would pay millions for an athlete who would take his team to the Super Bowl-- a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1878685783
• ISBN13: 9781878685780
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Turner Pub
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.3" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Professional Sports Exposed

Ruffians by Tim Green also exposed the dark world of professional sports. The world of sex, drugs and alcohol use by professional athletes. The main character in the book, "Clay" seems like a nice normal guy before he enters the pros and gets mixed up with "Max." Let's hope that some of the pros out there don't cheat on their significant others as much as Clay did in this book.

The Ruffians book Review

The Ruffians This book is by Tim Green. This is a very realistic book about the NFL. It shows what happens in the NFL and pressures in the NFL. It has a character in it called clay. He is drafted into the NFL.on a expansion team. The coach is being paid to make a championship team in 1 year. He has made a program that will help them succeed. It involves Steroids. Will he except the plan or reject it.

Great inside look at the NFL

Tim Green's got it all. He played for 8 years in the NFL and he has a law degree. I found his characters believable and the flow of the action is good. That book gave me the creeps at some times. I never thought it could be like that in the NFL, but Tim Green made it believable and now I'm trying to guess which real team could try to pull the same trick the Ruffians tried...

A 3-D Football Ride!

I watched my 17 yr. old football playing son read this book. He kept trying to put it down and turn on the TV - Boob tube lost, book won. He read it in one day then passed it on to his father. Dad read it in one day because he couldn't put it down. A week later, son Chad is reading this book cover to cover again! Chad then insists that I have to read it and by gosh, I couldn't put it down either. Good thing I was on a coast to coast flight because there would have been no work done that day! Tim Green's characters are real and full of flavor - good guys and bad. Great Read!!! The book offers real people who happen to play football, not just the Monday Night Football versions of the athletes who play America's favorite sport.