It’s been more than three months since the World Cup and the NFL is in full swing so I feel compelled to make another sports post. I came across an article on CNNMoney.com that highlights The Blind Side, a new book by Michael Lewis (the author of Moneyball) that deals with a supposedly unkown aspect of the National Football League. Here is the beginning of the article:

Three years ago Michael Lewis helped change the way average baseball fans and front-office types alike felt about what made a ballplayer valuable.

Now he’s about to shake up the thinking of football fans with his new book, “The Blind Side.”

When I first read through that opening, I truly believed that perhaps Lewis had uncovered some aspect of the game that I had missed and was going to reveal a “dirty little secret” to all of us football fans. It turns out that the entire premise of the book is based on the high salaries of the men who play Left Tackle in the NFL. I’m willing to wager that all but the most casual of football fans already knew that tackles were among the highest paid players in the league. One more quote:

“I have talked to many NFL coordinators and coaches and when I said left tackle is the second-best-paid position, their response was, ‘No way!’” Lewis said.

Sorry Mr. Lewis, but I doubt it.

If you are a football fan, do you think I’m being fair to question the author on this? Do you find this surprising or even worthy of a book?