I’m pretty surprised that this was my first time reading George Plimpton’s ‘Paper Lion: Confessions of a Last-String Quarterback‘, especially considering that good Detroit Lions reading material can be hard to find. I’ve known about the book’s existence for a pretty long time and it appealed to me, but I just never got around to diving in.
The premise of ‘Paper Lion’ was appealing to me for two reasons. First, it’s one of the original “average Joe trains with the pros and chronicles his experience” stories. Nowadays, it’s a category of sports media that has been done enough times that it seems a little uninspired.