The rapid-fire, ultra-glitzy, superstar-driven nature of professional football as it is played on any given Sunday does not always lend itself to serious literary contemplation. For every classic of football non-fiction, like George Plimpton’s Paper Lion, or Michael MacCambridge’s America’s Game, the shelves are cluttered with adoring biographies, glossy chapbooks and quickie novelty items like 100 Things Steelers Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.Which makes the arrival of Joe Nick Patoski’s new book, The Dallas Cowboys: The Outrageous History of the Biggest, Loudest, Most Hated, Best Loved Football Team in America decidedly unexpected. A doorstop-sized 800-plus pages, the book is less a sports story than a mixture of history and cultural analysis. In Patoski’s interpretation, the city and the sports franchise are inextricable—each allowed the other…The post Tackling the Cowboys appeared first on Texas Monthly.