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Nonfiction The footballingest football book ever THE PERFECT PASS: American Genius and the Reinvention of Football By S. C. Gwynne 271 pp. Scribner Reviewed by Jack Shakely I was born and raised in Oklahoma, the state that legendary coach Bennie Owens said had two favorite sports, football and spring football. I am nuts about football. I bleed crimson and cream every autumn Saturday for my beloved Oklahoma Sooners. I thought I could never get enough football. Until I read The Perfect Pass. This is the footballingest football book you will ever read outside of the Dallas Cowboys playbook. Even Vince Lombardi’s autobiography has fewer diagrams. It has more x’s and o’s than a game of tic-tac-toe. Which is surprising, given the book’s author. S. C. Gwynne is the Pulitzer-prize finalist author of the brilliant Empire of the Summer Moon, one of the best nonfiction books ever written about the Plains Indians. He has the writing chops, and he often shows them here. But not often enough. I thou...