Five Rings

JERRY THORNTON is a founder of Barstool Sports and a cohost of the daily Dale and Holley Show on WEEI, Boston s leading sports radio station. In addition, Jerry is a standup comic who won the Boston Comedy Riot competition and has worked colleges and clubs all around New England. He has appeared on HBO's Emmy Award-winning "Curse of the Bambino" and Comcast Sports New England and has written for ColdHardFootballFacts.com.

Foreword Introduction Bears, Cheeseheads, and Tuna I. ONE RING Time Is a Flat Circle Legs Twitching, Quietly Barking Snow Bowl Quarterback-Shaped Balloon Animal That Calm Inner Plumbing II. TWO RINGS You Always Remember Your First Finally, We Could Have Nice Things Attitude Adjustment Pond Scum Again Schopenhauer on the Fifty Superhorse Legit III. THREE RINGS The Patriot Way Last Season Meant Nothing Chum in the Water Flap Your Wings IV. FOUR RINGS One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Martyball A Van Gogh Underneath Your Team Cheats (or Asterisks Like Ninja Stars) Any Day the Giants Lose (Is a Good Day) Anger, with Sh*tloads of Fighting Back Losers and Sore Losers The Super Bowl That Shall Not Be Named II A Tale of Two Tight Ends “We’ll Take the Wind” Chaos Theory Maybe They Oughtta Study the Rule Book Because Karma Malcolm GO! V. FIVE RINGS Defend the Wall Not Bitter Like Some Teenage Goth Girl 28–3 You Can’t Always Get What You Want Epilogue: The Luxury of Ordinary Losses Acknowledgments Index