Great, great article

[Satchel Pooch]

I know it's a sporadic kind of thing and they don't have to produce week after week after week, but I'm in awe every time I read PLAY.

 

[Jeff Gluck]

One question unrelated to Parcells: Is this part true?

"The cornerback is now the best-paid defensive position and the left tackle the second-best-paid offensive position; indeed, after the quarterback, the left tackle is the highest-paid position on the field."

Awesome story though.

 

[PopeDirkBenedict]

Great story. Lewis has done some great stuff for NYT -- I loved his article last year on Mike Leach.

 

[beefncheddar]

Great story, indeed.

Although, it's nice to know that even the best can lay an egg like:

His final act before the Cowboys signed him, however, was to miss a 46-yard field goal in the last minute that would have tied the A.F.C. championship game

And even this isn't exactly accurate:

“That means Duckett's playing,” says Parcells. That would be T. J. Duckett, acquired just three weeks earlier by Washington from Denver.

Does his stuff actually get edited, I (and "Jason Whitten") are beginning to wonder.

 

[enigami]

Yeah, Whitten stuck out like a sore thumb. Reminded me of a separate thread here about mistakes getting through Sports Illustrated's copy editors, really devaluing the mag's legacy, if not the product itself. Too bad. This is very good journalism, very good sports writing, and one miserable SOB coach.

 

[daemon]

"An article last Sunday in Play magazine about Dallas Cowboys Coach Bill Parcells misstated the surname of a Dallas tight end. He is Jason Witten, not Whitten. The article also misstated the position that Chris Cooley of the Washington Redskins plays, and misidentified the former team of Washington's running back T. J. Duckett. Cooley is a tight end, not a wide receiver. Duckett played for Atlanta, not Denver. The article also referred incorrectly to a playoff game last season in which Dallas's kicker, Mike Vanderjagt, then with the Indianapolis Colts, missed a potential game-tying field goal against Pittsburgh. It was a divisional playoff game, not a conference championship game."

Longest correction ever?

 

[turnovers]

Geeze, retract the whole story, why don't they. That's an awful big jumbled up mess for one story. It was quite the piece, though, errors aside.

 

[jgmacg]

Two innocent questions.

I notice a couple of folks here commenting on the number of errors in a very long piece by Michael Lewis. Errors then corrected by the magazine.

Presuming you work as writers, what's your average error rate per piece? And how often does your publication bother to print a correction?

 

[enigami]

I plead no contest to all charges of hypocrisy.

But ...

Anyone who plays fantasy football would catch the Whitten mistake. It'd be like a room full of undergrad astrophysics students pointing out an arithmetic error by Stephen Hawking.

 

[Human_Paraquat]

One question unrelated to Parcells: Is this part true?

"The cornerback is now the best-paid defensive position and the left tackle the second-best-paid offensive position; indeed, after the quarterback, the left tackle is the highest-paid position on the field."

Awesome story though.

I believe that is true. I know a few years ago the highest-paid player in football was Jonathan Ogden, which shocked me.

 

[BYH]

I haven't read this story but I hate it. [/Joe Morgan]

 

[Double Down]

Besides, BYH, would I want to read a story Bill Parcells wrote about himself? [/Joe Morgan]