On Any Given Sunday Author:Pat Toomay This is a novel about football — professional, that is — in something of the way, say, Bernard Malamud's The Natural is a novel about baseball. In it you can discover the essence, the truth, of the warzone the players inhabit that can only be invoked by Pat Toomay, a man who was there. — Pat Toomay, for many years a lineman ... more »with the Cowboys and the Raiders, has mixed fact and fiction to produce a story that will make every armchair quarterback laugh and wince — and worry at his exposition of the game’s most insidious reality: the prospect — on any given Sunday — of a fix.« less