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Football And How To Survive It

Author : Pat Nevin
Publisher : Monoray
ISBN 13 : 1800961154
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Football And How To Survive It written by Pat Nevin and published by Monoray. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The good news for those who loved THE ACCIDENTAL FOOTBALLER: this new book is even better. There were times as I read Pat Nevin's account of his years running - or, trying to run - Motherwell, I had to remind myself to breathe. It's a thrilling read - funny, nerve-wracking, precise and very, very human' - Roddy Doyle So, you fell into football by accident. You've played for Chelsea, Everton and your country at an international level. But what happens when you discover you're in so deep that football has taken over your whole life? In his brilliant new memoir, Pat Nevin takes us on a journey to the less glamorous side of football. From Tranmere to Kilmarnock, he plays some of the best football he's ever played. Then, in an unprecedented twist of fate, finds himself both player and Chief Executive of Scottish First Division club Motherwell. What follows is an entertaining and revealing tale of the side of football that you rarely see as Pat tries to keep the lid on simmering tensions between owner and the manager; travels in Lear jets one moment, but has to sell off half the team, the next. So much is madness, like being the manager's boss, and his player at the same time; or discovering that the ground's goalposts are higher on one side than on the other! And with impossible challenges at every corner, such as learning that their son is autistic, and the club hurtling towards administration, Pat strives to walk the impossible line between player, parent and boss. FOOTBALL AND HOW TO SURVIVE IT is a real one-off, uncovering the sport in all its complex, confusing and calamitous glory. Once you've read it, you may never look at the game in the same way again.

The Rookie Handbook

Author : Ryan Kalil
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 168245035X
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book The Rookie Handbook written by Ryan Kalil and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congratulations, you just got drafted into the NFL. Now what? Here’s what’s ahead of you: rigorous training, complicated playbooks, financial conundrums, intense pressure to perform—and temptation. Welcome to the big leagues. Informative, smart, funny, and beautifully illustrated, The Rookie Handbook has everything NFL rookies need to know to survive their first season of pro football, straight from veterans Ryan Kalil, Jordan Gross, and Geoff Hangartner. The three authors have a combined thirty years of NFL experience, but they too were rookies themselves, once upon a time. Much like rookies, NFL fans only know what they see on TV or read—obsessively following Rich Eisen and scouring obscure blogs for fantasy football info. But when it comes to what goes on in the inner sanctum, behind the locker room doors, it’s a mystery. The Rookie Handbook is the insider’s guide to that exclusive club, pulling back the curtain to reveal how players act and think—and what they do when no one is watching.

Slow Getting Up

Author : Nate Jackson
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062383213
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Slow Getting Up written by Nate Jackson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One man's odyssey into the brutal hive of the National Football League As an unsigned free agent who rose through the practice squad to the starting lineup of the Denver Broncos, Nate Jackson took the path of thousands of unknowns before him to carve out a professional football career twice as long as the average player. Through his story recounted here—from scouting combines to preseason cuts to byzantine film studies to glorious touchdown catches—even knowledgeable football fans will glean a new, starkly humanized understanding of the NFL's workweek. Fast-paced, lyrical, dirty, and hilariously unvarnished, Slow Getting Up is an unforgettable look at the real lives of America's best athletes putting their bodies and minds through hell.

The Ultimate Football Survival Guide

Author : Nancy Hartwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781791546724
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (467 download)

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Download or read book The Ultimate Football Survival Guide written by Nancy Hartwell and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American football is a great sport, but if you didn't grow up eating and breathing it, it can be really hard to figure out. When you try to watch a game on tv the commentators seem to be speaking Martian, and the jumble of players on the field is totally confusing. Unlike many sports that you can watch for a few minutes and pretty much understand, football needs someone to explain it to you. The Ultimate Football Survival Guide: Demystifying This Great American Pastime does just that. In plain English -- in a friendly, conversational style as if a friend were sitting on the couch next to you - it tells you how the game is organized, who the players are and what they do, diagrams how the players are positioned to start plays, talks about officials, penalties, and coaching staff. It also touches briefly on recent controversies, college and high school football, women and football, and American football overseas. Annexes include fun statistics, Super Bowl results, and members of the NFL Hall of Fame. An easy-reference glossary of nearly 400 terms is also included.The purpose of the book isn't to make you an expert on every nuance of every rule, but to give you a solid understanding of the game so that you can enjoy watching it.Football is fun, and a book about it should be fun to read, so the Survival Guide includes dozens and dozens of hilarious anecdotes, some of which were contributed specifically for this book by NFL coaches and players.

Survival Guide for Coaching Youth Football

Author : Jim Dougherty
Publisher : Human Kinetics
ISBN 13 : 1492583170
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Survival Guide for Coaching Youth Football written by Jim Dougherty and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2010-06-23 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You volunteered to coach the football team, but are you ready? How will you teach the fundamental skills, run effective practices, and harness the energy of your young team? Fear not: Survival Guide for Coaching Youth Football has the answers. Longtime coach Jim Dougherty teams up with Brandon Castel to share experience and advice you can rely on from the first practice to the final game. It’s all here in the drills and the plays: evaluating players’ skills, establishing realistic goals, offering in-game coaching tips, and making the practices fun! Develop your team’s offensive and defensive skills for all positions with the Survival Guide’s collection of the game’s best youth drills. For plays that young players can actually run, flip to the Survival Guide’s offensive playbook and defensive alignments. And to get the most out of every practice, follow the ready-to-use practice plans. Turn to the series that has already guided thousands of first-time coaches in basketball, soccer, and softball to rewarding and productive seasons. With Survival Guide for Coaching Youth Football, you’re already well on your way.

Survival Guide for Coaching Youth Football

Author : Jim Dougherty
Publisher : Human Kinetics
ISBN 13 : 1450409156
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Survival Guide for Coaching Youth Football written by Jim Dougherty and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2010 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a cohesive strategy for teaching the basics of football using a lighthearted, humorous tone to describe a complex game.

Football Coach's Survival Guide

Author : Mike Koehler
Publisher : Parker Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Football Coach's Survival Guide written by Mike Koehler and published by Parker Publishing Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized for easy use into 16 sections, including player recruitment, conditioning, & game preparation. Covers policies to combat drug & steroid use, tested scouting reports, ways to improve performance, & more.

Why Football Matters

Author : Mark Edmundson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143127640
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Why Football Matters written by Mark Edmundson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed essayist Mark Edmundson reflects on his own rite of passage as a high school football player to get to larger truths about the ways America's Game shapes its men Football teaches young men self-discipline and teamwork. But football celebrates violence. Football is a showcase for athletic beauty and physical excellence. But football damages young bodies and minds, sometimes permanently. Football inspires confidence and direction. But football instills cockiness, a false sense of superiority. The athlete is a noble figure with a proud lineage. The jock is America at its worst. When Mark Edmundson’s son began to play organized football, and proved to be very good at it, Edmundson had to come to terms with just what he thought about the game. Doing so took him back to his own childhood, when as a shy, soft boy growing up in a blue-collar Boston suburb in the sixties, he went out for the high school football team. Why Football Matters is the story of what happened to Edmundson when he tried to make himself into a football player. What does it mean to be a football player? At first Edmundson was hapless on the field. He was an inept player and a bad teammate. But over time, he got over his fears and he got tougher. He learned to be a better player and came to feel a part of the team, during games but also on all sorts of escapades, not all of them savory. By playing football, Edmundson became what he and his father hoped he’d be, a tougher, stronger young man, better prepared for life. But is football-instilled toughness always a good thing? Do the character, courage, and loyalty football instills have a dark side? Football, Edmundson found, can be full of bounties. But it can also lead you into brutality and thoughtlessness. So how do you get what’s best from the game and leave the worst behind? Why Football Matters is moving, funny, vivid, and filled with the authentic anxiety and exhilaration of youth. Edmundson doesn’t regret playing football for a minute, and cherishes the experience. His triumph is to be able to see it in full, as something to celebrate, but also something to handle with care. For anyone who has ever played on a football team, is the parent of a player, or simply is reflective about its outsized influence on America, Why Football Matters is both a mirror and a lamp.

Will America Accept Love at Halftime? Or How to Survive Pro-Football Sunday

Author : Jim Klobuchar
Publisher : Ross & Haines
ISBN 13 : 9780870180668
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Will America Accept Love at Halftime? Or How to Survive Pro-Football Sunday written by Jim Klobuchar and published by Ross & Haines. This book was released on 1972-01-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Going Long

Author : Jeff Miller
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 9780071418492
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book Going Long written by Jeff Miller and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2003 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1959, the NFL had just a dozen teams, with only two located west of the MIssissippi River. For 40 years, it had enjoyed total dominance over the gridiron, tackling rival franchises and knocking them out of the game. But a revolution was coming to American football, and it all began with a man named Lamar Hunt, the Texas millionaire who desperately wanted a league of his own"--Inside cover flap.

Advancing the Ball

Author : N. Jeremi Duru
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199792801
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Advancing the Ball written by N. Jeremi Duru and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the NFL's desegregation in 1946, opportunities became increasingly plentiful for African American players--but not African American coaches. Although Major League Baseball and the NBA made progress in this regard over the years, the NFL's head coaches were almost exclusively white up until the mid-1990s. Advancing the Ball chronicles the campaign of former Cleveland Browns offensive lineman John Wooten to right this wrong and undo decades of discriminatory head coach hiring practices--an initiative that finally bore fruit when he joined forces with attorneys Cyrus Mehri and Johnnie Cochran. Together with a few allies, the triumvirate galvanized the NFL's African American assistant coaches to stand together for equal opportunity and convinced the league to enact the "Rooney Rule," which stipulates that every team must interview at least one minority candidate when searching for a new head coach. In doing so, they spurred a movement that would substantially impact the NFL and, potentially, the nation. Featuring an impassioned foreword by Coach Tony Dungy, Advancing the Ball offers an eye-opening, first-hand look at how a few committed individuals initiated a sea change in America's most popular sport and added an extraordinary new chapter to the civil rights story.

Football for a Buck

Author : Jeff Pearlman
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 0544454383
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (444 download)

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Download or read book Football for a Buck written by Jeff Pearlman and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a multiple New York Times bestselling author, the rollicking, outrageous, you-can't-make-this-up story of the USFL The United States Football League--known fondly to millions of sports fans as the USFL--was the last football league to not merely challenge the NFL, but cause its owners and executives to collectively shudder. It spanned three seasons, 1983-85. It secured multiple television deals. It drew millions of fans and launched the careers of legends. But then it died beneath the weight of a particularly egotistical and bombastic owner--a New York businessman named Donald J. Trump. The league featured as many as 18 teams, and included such superstars as Steve Young, Jim Kelly, Herschel Walker, Reggie White, Doug Flutie and Mike Rozier. In Football for a Buck, the dogged reporter and biographer Jeff Pearlman draws on more than four hundred interviews to unearth all the salty, untold stories of one of the craziest sports entities to have ever captivated America. From 1980s drug excess to airplane brawls and player-coach punch outs, to backroom business deals, to some of the most enthralling and revolutionary football ever seen, Pearlman transports readers back in time to this crazy, boozy, audacious, unforgettable era of the game. He shows how fortunes were made and lost on the backs of professional athletes and also how, thirty years ago, Trump was a scoundrel and a spoiler. For fans of Terry Pluto's Loose Balls or Jim Bouton's Ball Four and of course Pearlman's own stranger-than-fiction narratives, Football for a Buck is sports as high entertainment--and a cautionary tale of the dangers of ego and excess.

Penthouse and Pavement

Author : Bill Leckie
Publisher : Mainstream Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781840182194
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Penthouse and Pavement written by Bill Leckie and published by Mainstream Publishing Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not a book for glory-hunters. It's a book about pain, and about the anguish of watching your team lose 9-2 in the very first game you ever saw, and about the inevitability of defeat, despair and dismay. But it's also about hope, and about dreams, which sometimes come true, like the once in a lifetime ecstasy of winning the Cup or a League. As anyone who's had that moment-of-a-lifetime knows, the joy is even greater because you've known the pain. For sportswriter Bill Leckie, who has followed St Mirren since 1964, it all became worthwhile when they won the Scottish Cup in 1987. This volume is about the clubs and the people who love them. It's about the kind of fan who doesn't go to games expecting to win - or worse, demanding it. And it is about being willing to accept a lifetime of frustration in return for one day of utter wonderment.

The Real All Americans

Author : Sally Jenkins
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385522991
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book The Real All Americans written by Sally Jenkins and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-05-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sally Jenkins, bestselling co-author of It's Not About the Bike, revives a forgotten piece of history in The Real All Americans. In doing so, she has crafted a truly inspirational story about a Native American football team that is as much about football as Lance Armstrong's book was about a bike. If you’d guess that Yale or Harvard ruled the college gridiron in 1911 and 1912, you’d be wrong. The most popular team belonged to an institution called the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. Its story begins with Lt. Col. Richard Henry Pratt, a fierce abolitionist who believed that Native Americans deserved a place in American society. In 1879, Pratt made a treacherous journey to the Dakota Territory to recruit Carlisle’s first students. Years later, three students approached Pratt with the notion of forming a football team. Pratt liked the idea, and in less than twenty years the Carlisle football team was defeating their Ivy League opponents and in the process changing the way the game was played. Sally Jenkins gives this story of unlikely champions a breathtaking immediacy. We see the legendary Jim Thorpe kicking a winning field goal, watch an injured Dwight D. Eisenhower limping off the field, and follow the glorious rise of Coach Glenn “Pop” Warner as well as his unexpected fall from grace. The Real All Americans is about the end of a culture and the birth of a game that has thrilled Americans for generations. It is an inspiring reminder of the extraordinary things that can be achieved when we set aside our differences and embrace a common purpose.

Let's Play Football

Author : Ginger Swift
Publisher : Chunky Lift-A-Flap Board Book
ISBN 13 : 9781680529814
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Let's Play Football written by Ginger Swift and published by Chunky Lift-A-Flap Board Book. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Let's Play Football! Introduce your baby or toddler to the world of football. They will learn the basics of the game and words associated with the sport. Learn that football shoes are called cleats, the different pads players wear to stay safe, how to warm up before a game, and watch the fans cheering in the stands. Count the number of players and practice words such as coach, tackle, end zone, and field goal. Most importantly, learn how to be a kind, good sport."--

My Football Story

Author : Wesley Eggleston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781725081000
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book My Football Story written by Wesley Eggleston and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting high school is hard enough. Starting high school, and playing a new sport for the first time is even more demanding! Wesley Eggleston was inspired to write this book to show others everything he went through as a football player in high school. It was a new experience for him, and as with anything new, there are ups, and downs that come with the challenge. Through hardships, interactions with teammates, both good and bad, and with his coaches will Wesley survive taking this football experience head on?

Down, Set, Hut

Author : Matthew William Nighswonger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780996356527
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book Down, Set, Hut written by Matthew William Nighswonger and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Down, Set, Hut" illuminates the real world of college football. Learn about all the human drama that accompanies the high stakes world of America's favorite sport. Charlie is trying to lead the Puma college football team to a championship that could change lives forever. Is the building pressure and stress too much for him? Mary tries to be the supportive college sweetheart, but it is not as easy as she thought. Will their relationship make it through the season? Blake chases his dream of becoming a head coach. April has to decide if her husband's dream is her own. Or is being a coach's wife too much for her to handle? Can their marriage survive the constant tug of war between football and family life? Follow these characters through all the trials and tribulations of a college football season and find out if the Puma can reach their goals and win that elusive championship.