title: The Philly Fan's Code: The 50 Toughest, Craziest, Most Legendary Philadelphia Athletes of the Last 50 Years
author: Mike Tanier
description: <DIV>&quot;A veritable cheesesteak between covers, Mike Tanier's The Philly Fan's Code is a book no self-respecting Philadelphia sports fan can be without.&quot;<BR>&mdash;Gregg Easterbrook, ESPN</DIV><br /><br /><DIV>&quot;Honest, incisive, funny, and compulsively readable, The Philly Fan's Code is the perfect book for Philly sports fans. Mike Tanier offers a fresh take on age-old debates about the legacies of the city's most memorable and controversial athletes, inviting readers to reconsider the reputation and history of Philadelphia fans.&quot; <BR>&mdash;Tom McAllister, author of Bury Me in My Jersey: A Memoir of My Father, Football, and Philly</DIV>
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  Perfectly Awful
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  Perfectly Awful
  The Philadelphia 76ers’ Horrendous and Hilarious
  1972–1973 Season
  Charley Rosen
  University of Nebraska Press | Lincoln & London
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  © 2014 by Charley Rosen
  Cover photo: AP Photo/BH
  All rights reserved
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication
  Data
  Rosen, Charles.
  Perfectly
  awful:
  the
  Philadelphia
  76ers’
  horrendous and hilarious 1972–1973 season /
  Charley Rosen.
  pages cm
  Includes bibliographical references.
  ISBN 978-0-8032-4862-5 (cloth: alk. paper)
  ISBN 978-0-8032-8645-0 (epub)
  ISBN 978-0-8032-8646-7 (mobi)
  ISBN 978-0-8032-8647-4 (pdf)
  1. Philadelphia 76ers (Basketball team)—History.
  I. Title.
  GV885.52.P45R67 2014
  796.323'640974811—dc23
  2014017334
  The publisher does not have any control over and
  does not assume any responsibility for author or
  third-party websites or their content.
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  Bill
  Brennan—researcher
  extraordinaire,
  truth
  teller, devout Philadelphian
  Mary Brennan—warmhearted, gracious, five-star
  cook
  And the loving memory of Nei