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Rather, "Nobody Will Admit that A Novel about Football is the Best Novel of Our Generation". This does not appear to be about people denying that the book is about football.

Also, the novel is actually a novella.

Also, it seems not to be a book, but a web page:

https://www.sbnation.com/2014/8/18/5998715/the-tim-tebow-cfl...

[EDIT] Also, from the story:

> Raghib Ismail. Call me Raghib.

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[ANOTHER EDIT]

Further into the story now—in case it helps anyone decide whether or not to read it, this isn't slightly-twisted reality or magical realism or light urban fantasy or any of that, really, but full-on dream-logic.

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> Rather, "Nobody Will Admit that A Novel about Football is the Best Novel of Our Generation".

It’s interesting to me that I staunchly agree with your correction, and your interpretation of the original title. I unthinkingly parsed the original title to mean exactly this (to mean the corrected version) and didn’t ever consider its “incorrect” literal meaning.

It makes me wonder if the original title uses a widespread sub-dialect of English grammar which I’ve subconsciously picked up.

Or if it’s just always been common to rearrange words inconsistently/arbitrarily and we learn to rearrange them as correctly as we can manage.

Interesting, I interpreted it in the "revised" wording the grandparent used. I didn't think it should be interpreted literally.

It seems absurd that someone would say "this is the best novel of our generation", and then, despite the fact that it is obviously about football, deny that it's about football. So it seemed unlikely that the title should be interpreted literally like that.

Jon Bois is fantastic. All of his videos are great and he's a great writer. I highly recommend his "Pretty Good" series.

Oh jeeze, all I needed to read was "Jon Bois" and I knew the story would actually be excellent, despite my skepticism.

Actually, I should really have clued in that he was the author much, MUCH sooner. That's on me.

My first encounter with Jon Bois was the final entry of "Breaking Madden" and I have never forgotten it.

https://youtu.be/CeKC7cH1-kI

https://www.sbnation.com/2014/1/30/5351052/breaking-madden-s...

Ahhh Rocket Ismail. Another player who was really, really good in college and ended up in the CFL, not really "sticking" in the NFL.

Edit: watching highlight videos from like 25 years ago.. I had forgotten that he also knelt to pray when he scored, similar to Tebow.

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