SemiTough Author:Dan Jenkins This is a rare hoot of a novel, ribald, funny, and very politically incorrect - so much so that I wasn't sure after the first few pages I'd like it, and PC-incorrectness doesn't usually faze me. But irreverent is what I'd call it, with a flavor very similar to "M*A*S*H". This is about Billy Clyde Puckett of the New York Giants, his teammate and ... more »best bud from the same Texas high school, Shake Tiller, and Barbara Jane Bookman, "model and confidante, and incidentally the girl with whom almost everybody must fall in love". The events precede and include the days leading up to the Superbowl, but in a way that is incidental to the main focus of the book, which seems to be about how to be true to oneself and one's friends while satisfying all desires, and football crops up here and there also. This is Jenkins' one hit novel, but I may have to check out his others now« less