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Book Synopsis Pro Football Championships Before the Super Bowl by : Joseph S. Page
Download or read book Pro Football Championships Before the Super Bowl written by Joseph S. Page and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the Super Bowl has become a worldwide cultural event, the annual league championship games had a long history even before the first Super Bowl in January, 1967. From the first American Football League's attempt to settle the league title on the gridiron in 1926 to the separate NFL and AFL championships of the 1965 season, this history offers a narrative of each game, including line-ups, box scores and team statistics.
Download or read book The Super Bowl written by David Fischer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1966, as the champions of the AFL and NFL prepared to play each other for the first time, Kansas City Chiefs–owner Lamar Hunt wrote the following to Commissioner Pete Rozelle: “I have kiddingly called [the championship game] the Super Bowl, which obviously can be improved upon.” How wrong Hunt was. After the AFL merged with the NFL, “Super Bowl” became the official title of the NFL championship game in the years to come. In celebration of the first fifty Super Bowls, David Fischer traces its evolution from a game that didn’t sell out in 1967 to a worldwide phenomenon with a viewership in the hundreds of millions. Packed with dozens of arresting full-color illustrations—highlighting game action, memorabilia, and players and coaches—The Super Bowl includes sections on the greatest games, individual performances, and game-changing plays. Fischer explores unique Super Bowl angles as well, including a ranking of “The Best Who Never Won” and “The Best Who Never Lost,” along with perspectives from players and fans. He covers the action, the heroes, the strategy, and the records from half a century of championship football. This celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of America’s premier sporting event is an essential addition to any football fan’s collection. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports—books about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team. Whether you are a New York Yankees fan or hail from Red Sox nation; whether you are a die-hard Green Bay Packers or Dallas Cowboys fan; whether you root for the Kentucky Wildcats, Louisville Cardinals, UCLA Bruins, or Kansas Jayhawks; whether you route for the Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, or Los Angeles Kings; we have a book for you. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Download or read book The Glory Game written by Frank Gifford and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-10-31 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Frank Gifford brings the contest so alive that you find yourself almost wondering, 50 years later, how it will turn out in the end.” —New York Times Book Review The Glory Game recreates in breathtaking detail the 1958 National Football League Championship Game between the New York Giants and the Baltimore Colts, which many football fans feel was “The Greatest Game Ever Played.” This first-hand, field level, “behind-the-helmet” account by ex-Giant Hall of Famer and longtime “Monday Night Football” broadcaster Frank Gifford brings back to life all the sights and sounds of the momentous contest that changed football forever, and offers vivid, indelible portraits of the legendary players—including Sam Huff, Andy Robustelli, Art Donovan, Lenny Moore, and Raymond Berry. The Giants-Colts clash of ’58 was truly The Glory Game—and now readers can relive it in all its glory.
Download or read book Lost Champions written by Gretchen Atwood and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the integration of professional football--the year before Jackie Robinson did the same for baseball--has been overlooked for too long. Many know the story of Jackie Robinson integrating major league baseball in 1947. But few know that the NFL integrated a year earlier, when Kenny Washington stepped on the field for the Los Angeles Rams. He wasn't the only one. Four men broke pro football's color line in 1946, Kenny Washington and Woody Strode with the Los Angeles Rams and Bill Willis and Marion Motley with the Cleveland Browns. Lost Champions traces this history from the early 1930s--when NFL owners first instituted a ban on black players--through pro football's re-integration, to the 1950 NFL Championship Game, which pitted the Rams and Browns against each other in a showdown of the most prolific and advanced offenses pro football had ever seen. But the battle wasn't just waged on the gridiron. Lost Champions shows how efforts to integrate sports sits within the often-ignored history of the civil rights movement in the 1940s. The four players faced animosity and death threats for their role in integration while they and all black Americans were threatened in 1946 by a spike in lynchings, threat of legal expulsion from their own homes, and segregation all the way down to the simple act of going to an amusement park for a bit of relaxation. Finally, Lost Champions explains why these men and their stories have for so long languished in the shadow of Jackie Robinson, and why they too deserve widespread acclaim for integrating what is arguably the most popular sport in America.
Book Synopsis The Cleveland Rams by : James C. Sulecki
Download or read book The Cleveland Rams written by James C. Sulecki and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-10-24 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2016 the Rams left St. Louis for Los Angeles—having departed L.A. for St. Louis in 1995—and caused much heartbreak among fans. NFL teams are notorious for decamping to more profitable markets and the Rams’ history of opportunistic moves goes back to 1946, when they left Cleveland, their original hometown, where fans had cheered them to a championship a month earlier. The move to L.A. from Cleveland shocked the NFL and shook up its power structure. It also jolted the all-white league into reintegration, prepared the way for the Browns, and made the Rams the only NFL champs ever to have spent the following season in a different city. This is the story of how the Rams went from a home-grown Ohio team funded by local businessmen to the first major-league franchise on the West Coast, and how their departure jumpstarted a chain of events in Cleveland that continues to this day.
Book Synopsis Great Games of the Gridiron by : Jim Rice
Download or read book Great Games of the Gridiron written by Jim Rice and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Great Games of the Gridiron presents the NFL Championship Games before the Super Bowl Era. It revisits the highlights and sidelights of each game from 1933-1965. A concise guide to all 33 title games before the Super Bowl, Great Games of the Gridiron features Baugh vs. Luckman, Graham vs. Layne, the Bears vs. the Redskins and the Giants vs. the Packers among many others"--Amazon.com.
Book Synopsis The Super Bowl by : Hans Carroll Hetrick
Download or read book The Super Bowl written by Hans Carroll Hetrick and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first Super Bowl in 1967 was not a big event that drew huge crowds. But since then it has grown into the biggest and most popular event in sports. At the end of every season, 12 teams slug it out to make it to the National Football League's championship game. Discover the greatest teams, players, and games in Super Bowl history.
Book Synopsis The 1958 Baltimore Colts by : George Bozeka
Download or read book The 1958 Baltimore Colts written by George Bozeka and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-07-06 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1958 Baltimore Colts were one of the greatest teams ever in professional football. Owned by the controversial Carroll Rosenbloom and led by head coach Weeb Ewbank and six future Hall of Fame players--Johnny Unitas, Raymond Berry, Lenny Moore, Jim Parker, Art Donovan and Gino Marchetti--they won the NFL title that season, defeating the New York Giants in the first sudden death championship game in NFL history. The Colts laid the foundation for the ultra-popular spectacle football would become with the American public. They were a talented group of players. Many had been rejected or underappreciated at various points in their careers though they were loved and respected by the blue collar fans of Baltimore. This book tells the complete story of the '58 Colts and the city's love affair with the team.
Download or read book The Glory Game written by Frank Gifford and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-11-04 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1958 Frank Gifford was the golden boy on the glamour team in the most celebrated city in the NFL. When his New York Giants played the Baltimore Colts for the league championship that year, it became the single most memorable contest in the history of professional football. Broadcast to an audience of millions, it was the first title game ever to go into sudden-death overtime. Its drama, excitement, and controversy riveted the nation and helped propel football to the forefront of the American sports landscape. Now, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of "The Greatest Game Ever Played," New York Giants Hall of Famer and longtime television analyst Frank Gifford provides an inside-the-helmet account that will take its place in the annals of sports literature. Drawing on the poignant and humorous memories of every living player from the game—including fellow Hall of Famers Sam Huff, Andy Robustelli, Art Donovan, Lenny Moore, and Raymond Berry—as well as the author's own experiences and reflections, The Glory Game captures a magnificent moment in American sports history. It is the story of two very different cities and teams, filled with the joy, the disappointment, and the eternal pride of a day that will forever symbolize all that is great about sports. Told with gripping immediacy, The Glory Game is an indelible portrait of the NFL's most transcendent hours—a winter version of The Boys of Summer, told by one of football's true legends.
Book Synopsis A Century of NFL Football by : Roger Gordon
Download or read book A Century of NFL Football written by Roger Gordon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The birth of the National Football League can be traced to a meeting held in the showroom of a Canton, Ohio, car dealership in September, 1920. From these humble beginnings pro football has grown into a global phenomenon. Today, nearly a century later, fans flock to stadiums across the country, and worldwide television viewership numbers in the hundreds of millions. To celebrate the NFL's 100th season, Roger Gordon describes the evolution of pro football in trivia questions, answers, and anecdotes. Rather than merely posing questions and providing short answers, Gordon gives details behind each—stories that bring to life players, coaches, rivalries, and championships.
Book Synopsis One Sunday in December by : Lou Sahadi
Download or read book One Sunday in December written by Lou Sahadi and published by Globe Pequot. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting account of the game that changed the course of pro football - and of the men who played it Long before the Giants' historic defeat of the Patriots in the 2008 Super Bowl, there was another game many people considered "The Greatest Game Ever Played." The 1958 NFL Championship Game between the Baltimore Colts and the New York Giants skyrocketed the sport to mega- popularity. The first nationally televised football game, it featured unprecedented drama, a slew of future Hall of Famers, and something new - overtime. One Sunday in December thoroughly chronicles this legendary game. Drawing on extensive research and interviews with players who were there - including Frank Gifford, Sam Huff, Pat Summerall, Raymond Berry, Lenny Moore, Gino Marchetti, and Art Donovan - veteran sportswriter Lou Sahadi tells the story of the game, the men who played it, and the fascinating circumstances that led up to it. He delivers an action-packed narrative that will take football fans across America back to one Sunday they will never forget.
Book Synopsis America's Game by : Michael MacCambridge
Download or read book America's Game written by Michael MacCambridge and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2008-11-26 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s difficult to imagine today—when the Super Bowl has virtually become a national holiday and the National Football League is the country’s dominant sports entity—but pro football was once a ramshackle afterthought on the margins of the American sports landscape. In the span of a single generation in postwar America, the game charted an extraordinary rise in popularity, becoming a smartly managed, keenly marketed sports entertainment colossus whose action is ideally suited to television and whose sensibilities perfectly fit the modern age. America’s Game traces pro football’s grand transformation, from the World War II years, when the NFL was fighting for its very existence, to the turbulent 1980s and 1990s, when labor disputes and off-field scandals shook the game to its core, and up to the sport’s present-day preeminence. A thoroughly entertaining account of the entire universe of professional football, from locker room to boardroom, from playing field to press box, this is an essential book for any fan of America’s favorite sport.
Download or read book The Best Game Ever written by Mark Bowden and published by Atlantic Books Ltd. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 28, 1958, the New York Giants and Baltimore Colts met under the lights of Yankee Stadium for the American NFL Championship game. Played in front of sixty-four thousand fans and millions of television viewers around the country, the game would be remembered as the greatest in football history. On the field and roaming the sidelines were seventeen future Hall of Famers, including Colts stars Johnny Unitas, Raymond Berry, and Gino Marchetti, and Giants greats Frank Gifford, Sam Huff, and assistant coaches Vince Lombardi and Tom Landry. An estimated forty-five million viewers - at that time the largest crowd to have ever watched a football game - tuned in to see what would become the first sudden-death contest in NFL history. It was a battle of the league's best offense - the Colts -versus its best defense - the Giants. And it was a contest between the blue-collar Baltimore team versus the glamour boys of the Giants squad. The Best Game Ever is a brilliant portrait of how a single game changed the history of American sport and is destined to become a classic.
Book Synopsis Pro Football's Championship by : Tyler Omoth
Download or read book Pro Football's Championship written by Tyler Omoth and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2018 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All eyes are on the star running back. He darts this way and that, finally leaping over another player to land in the end zone. Touchdown! The pressure is on in this Super Bowl game, as two of the NFL's best teams fight for the title. Young readers will delight in learning fascinating facts about Super Bowl records, the event's history, and some of its most heart-stopping games.
Book Synopsis Pro Football Guide by : Sporting News
Download or read book Pro Football Guide written by Sporting News and published by . This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annual guide is a comprehensive compilation of information and statistics for the upcoming National Football League season. It reviews last year's season, spotlights draft picks, and provides complete team, league, and draft records dating back to 1920.
Book Synopsis The NFL's Pivotal Years by : Brad Schultz
Download or read book The NFL's Pivotal Years written by Brad Schultz and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-05-12 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent years have been among the most challenging in NFL history, culminating in the 2020-21 coronavirus and social justice issues. Yet a complete understanding of where the NFL is today begins with a five-year period that was the most transformative for the league. From 1957 to 1962, the NFL saw: the advent of unionization, with a landmark Supreme Court decision; the legendary 1958 title game, the first to go into sudden death overtime; a challenge from the American Football League that would have important consequences for decades; the introduction of computerization and statistical analysis; the first steps towards globalization; and the hiring of legends Vince Lombardi and Tom Landry, who both contributed to the league's growing mythology. This book describes in detail the key events that helped shape the modern NFL, and why this period was so momentous to the league and its fans.
Book Synopsis Great Teams in Pro Football History by : Joe Giglio
Download or read book Great Teams in Pro Football History written by Joe Giglio and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2006 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses ten of the greatest pro football teams ever and explains what it was that made each one so great.
