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The Unofficial History of Professional Football

Author : Mike Segee
Publisher : Xulon Press
ISBN 13 : 9781662885143
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (851 download)

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Download or read book The Unofficial History of Professional Football written by Mike Segee and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2023-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How much do you know about the NFL before 1960? Did you know the NFL wasn't the first professional football league? Did you know that throughout the NFL's history, 50 different teams have folded? While a quick online search may bring about easy and quick answers, questions about the origins of North American football are much more complex. North American football existed long before the National Football League was born. Its history is extensive and rich, dating all the way back to the late nineteenth century, and its many transformations had several interesting and unique factors. The Unofficial History of Professional Football is an educational and engaging piece that will allow readers to learn and understand how North American football came to be as well as why it is the number one sport in the United States today and second internationally, right behind soccer. Not only does this book detail the general history of football, but it also provides a deep analysis of the evolution of equipment, rules, leagues, and all the important people who made it happen. The historical context, such as world wars, pandemics, and other worldwide economic and social issues, is also included in this piece, revealing how these impactful events not only changed the fabric of many countries but changed the fabric of North American football forever. The intricacies of football go far beyond what is seen on the Sunday game on the big screen. This book was created after Mike Segee, the author, had a simple question about a football game. As a longtime football fanatic, he started looking online for his much-needed answer and fell into a rabbit hole of curious internet searching. Eventually, The Unofficial History of Professional Football came into existence, and the rest is history! Most books about the game of football are about a team, a player, a position, or some other specific aspect of the game. But this book sheds light on how the game started when players started earning money, and how many different leagues operated over the One Hundred and Fifty odd years it has existed. The NFL wasn't the first, and it surely didn't look like it does today. If you are interested in the sport of football, then this book is for you. Mike McBath Mike McBath is a former Buffalo Bill player in the NFL, former Florida Blazers player in the WFL, twice elected President of the NFL Former Player Association Nationally, and was elected six times to the NFL Former Players Board of Directors

NFL Football

Author : Richard C. Crepeau
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252052463
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book NFL Football written by Richard C. Crepeau and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2020-09-14 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new NFL Centennial Edition A multi-billion-dollar entertainment empire, the National Football League is a coast-to-coast obsession that borders on religion and dominates our sports-mad culture. But today's NFL also provides a stage for playing out important issues roiling American society. The updated and expanded edition of NFL Football observes the league's centennial by following the NFL into the twenty-first century, where off-the-field concerns compete with touchdowns and goal line stands for headlines. Richard Crepeau delves into the history of the league and breaks down the new era with an in-depth look at the controversies and dramas swirling around pro football today: Tensions between players and Commissioner Roger Goodell over collusion, drug policies, and revenue; The firestorm surrounding Colin Kaepernick and protests of police violence and inequality; Andrew Luck and others choosing early retirement over the threat to their long-term health; Paul Tagliabue's role in covering up information on concussions; The Super Bowl's evolution into a national holiday. Authoritative and up to the minute, NFL Football continues the epic American success story.

Football and Manliness

Author : Thomas P. Oates
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252099486
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Football and Manliness written by Thomas P. Oates and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2017-03-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women, African Americans, and gays have recently upended US culture with demands for inclusion and respect, while economic changes have transformed work and daily life for millions of Americans. The national obsession with the National Football League provides a window on this dynamic period of change, reshaping ideas about manliness to respond to new urgencies on and beyond the gridiron. Thomas P. Oates uses feminist theory to break down the dynamic cultural politics shaping, and shaped by, today's NFL. As he shows, the league's wildly popular product provides an arena for media producers to work out and recalibrate the anxieties, contradictions, and challenges that characterize contemporary masculinity. Oates draws from a range of pop culture narratives to map the complex set of theories about gender and race and to reveal a league and fan base in flux. Though longing for a past dominated by white masculinity, the mediated NFL also subtly aligns with a new economic reality that demands it cope with the shifting relations of gender, race, sexuality, and class. Indeed, pro football crafts new meanings of each by its canny mobilization of historic ideological processes.

America's Game

Author : Michael MacCambridge
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307481433
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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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.

The Football Encyclopedia

Author : David S. Neft
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 9780312050894
Total Pages : 1008 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book The Football Encyclopedia written by David S. Neft and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sports historians Neft and Cohen have created the football counterpart to Macmillan's Baseball Encyclopedia with this collection of rare, never-before-published statistics on the earliest years of organized pro football. Features key historical events from the game's origins in the 1890s through the 1990-91 season and Super Bowl.

The NFL's Official Encyclopedic History of Professional Football

Author : National Football League Properties, inc. Creative Services Division
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The NFL's Official Encyclopedic History of Professional Football written by National Football League Properties, inc. Creative Services Division and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Early History of Professional Football

Author : Professional Football Researchers Association (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781466418240
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book The Early History of Professional Football written by Professional Football Researchers Association (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Brand NFL

Author : Michael Oriard
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807899656
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Brand NFL written by Michael Oriard and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010-09-12 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professional football today is an $8 billion sports entertainment industry--and the most popular spectator sport in America, with designs on expansion across the globe. In this astute field-level view of the National Football League since 1960, Michael Oriard looks closely at the development of the sport and at the image of the NFL and its unique place in American life. New to the paperback edition is Oriard's analysis of the offseason labor negotiations and their potential effects on the future of the sport, and his account of how the NFL is dealing with the latest research on concussions and head injuries.

Slim: Unofficial History

Author : John Douglas
Publisher : Pen & Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 9781844157914
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book Slim: Unofficial History written by John Douglas and published by Pen & Sword Military. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like most members of the professional military freemasonry, Slim came to admire "all the soldiers of different races who have fought with me and most of those who have fought against me." Among the most likable of his enemies were the Wazirs of India's Northwest Frontier. In 1920, Slim took part in a retaliatory raid on an obscure village. It was an unusually easy victory over the canny Wazirs, whom the British took by surprise and escaped from with scant loss. Afterwards, in the casual frontier way, the British sent a message to the Wazirs, expressing surprise at the enemy's unusually poor shooting. The Wazirs replied in courtly fashion that their rifles were Short Magazine Lee-Enfields captured in previous fights with the British and that they had failed to sight the guns to accord with a new stock of ammunition. Now, having calculated the adjustment, they would be delighted to demonstrate their bull's-eye accuracy any time the British wanted. "One cannot help feeling," Slim says, "that the fellows who wrote that ought to be on our side." Slim genuinely enjoyed his virtually blood-free skirmishes with such foes as the Turks, the Wazirs and the Italians in 1940 Ethiopia.

Illustrated History of Pro Football

Author : Robert Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Illustrated History of Pro Football written by Robert Smith and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The National Forgotten League

Author : Dan Daly
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803244606
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The National Forgotten League written by Dan Daly and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first fifty years of America’s most popular spectator sport have been strangely neglected by historians claiming to tell the “complete story” of pro football. Well, here are the early stories that “complete story” has left out. What about the awful secret carried around by Sid Luckman, the Bears’ Hall of Fame quarterback whose father was a mobster and a murderer? Or Steve Hamas, who briefly played in the NFL then turned to boxing and beat Max Schmeling, conqueror of Joe Louis? Or the two one-armed players who suited up for NFL teams in 1945? Or Steelers owner Art Rooney postponing a game in 1938 because of injuries? These are just a few of the little-known facts Dan Daly unearths in recounting the untold history of pro football in its first half century. These decades were also full of ideas and experimentation, such as the invention of the modern T formation that revolutionized offense, unlimited player substitution, and soccer-style kicking, as well as the emergence of televised pro football as prime-time entertainment. Relying on obscure sources, original interviews, old game films and statistical databases, Daly’s extensive research and engaging stories bring the NFL’s formative years—and pro football’s folk roots—to life.

The Best Book of Football Facts & Stats

Author : John Mehno
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781552977682
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (776 download)

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Download or read book The Best Book of Football Facts & Stats written by John Mehno and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive look at football history with statistics through the 2001-2002 season. Includes a who's who of players and coaches, summaries of the greatest games, statistical leaders and award winners, and more.

The Best of Pro Football

Author : Matt Doeden
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 142963328X
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book The Best of Pro Football written by Matt Doeden and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2010 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Presents some of the best moments and players in professional football history"--Provided by publisher.

A Statistical History of Pro Football

Author : Rupert Patrick
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476640890
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book A Statistical History of Pro Football written by Rupert Patrick and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-05-26 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the author's 30-year study of football statistics, this book presents new methods for analyzing the game in different ways. An examination of known distances for missed field goals offers an accurate method for evaluating placekickers. Reassessments of punters and running backs are included, along with an overhaul of the NFL's passer rating system. Topics previously unexplored through statistics are covered, such as momentum, defining "What is a dynasty?" and "What is a Cinderella team?"

Big Game

Author : Mark Leibovich
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399185437
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (991 download)

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Download or read book Big Game written by Mark Leibovich and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A raucous, smash-mouth, first-person takedown of the National Football League." —Wall Street Journal The New York Times bestseller From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of This Town, an equally merciless probing of America's biggest cultural force, pro football, at a moment of peak success and high anxiety Like millions of Americans, Mark Leibovich has spent more of his life tuned into pro football than he'd care to admit. Being a lifelong New England Patriots fan meant growing up on a steady diet of lovable loserdom. That is, until the Tom Brady/Bill Belichick era made the Pats the most ruthlessly efficient and polarizing sports dynasty of the modern NFL, and its fans the most irritating in all of Pigskin America. Leibovich kept his obsession quiet, making a nice career for himself covering that other playground for rich and overgrown children, American politics. Still, every now and then Leibovich would reach out to Tom Brady to gauge his willingness to subject himself to a profile. He figured that the chances of Brady agreeing were a Hail Mary at best, but Brady returned Mark's call in summer 2014 and kept on returning his calls through epic Patriots Super Bowl victory and defeat, and a scandal involving Brady--Deflategate--whose grip on sports media was as profound as its true significance was ridiculous. So began a four-year odyssey that took Mark Leibovich deeper inside the NFL than anyone has gone before. From the owners' meeting to the draft to the sidelines of crucial games, he takes in the show at the elbow of everyone from Brady to big-name owners to the cordially despised NFL Commissioner, Roger Goodell. Ultimately, BIG GAME is a chronicle of "peak football"--the high point of the sport's economic success and cultural dominance, but also the time when the dark side began to show. It is an era of explosive revenue growth, but also one of creeping existential fear. Players have long joked that NFL stands for "not for long," but as the true impact of concussions becomes inescapable background noise, it's increasingly difficult to enjoy the simple glory of football without the buzz-kill of its obvious consequences. And that was before Donald Trump. In 2016, Mark's day job caught up with him, and the NFL slammed headlong into America's culture wars. Big Game is a journey through an epic storm. Through it all, Leibovich always keeps one eye on Tom Brady and his beloved Patriots, through to the 2018 Super Bowl. Pro football, this hilarious and enthralling book proves, may not be the sport America needs, but it is most definitely the sport we deserve.

America's Game

Author : Michael MacCambridge
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0375725067
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book America's Game written by Michael MacCambridge and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2005-10-18 with total page 0 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.

Tom Brady Vs. the NFL

Author : Sean Glennon
Publisher : Triumph Books
ISBN 13 : 1623680670
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (236 download)

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Download or read book Tom Brady Vs. the NFL written by Sean Glennon and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showcasing one of professional football's best players, this book spotlights the life and career of gridiron great Tom Brady. More than just a biography, it relates Brady's story while also establishing his prominent place in NFL history. By examining his skills and statistics in a variety of categories and comparing him to other great quarterbacks-including Peyton Manning, Joe Montana, Bart Starr, Johnny Unitas, Roger Staubach, and more-the guide makes a strong case for Brady as football's best signal caller. Along the way, his best moments as a Patriot are revisited, from championship seasons and his favorite receivers to his relationship with legendary coach Bill Belichick. With detailed sidebars on Brady's celebrity status, fashion sense, much-talked-about hair, and supermodel wife, this is a must-have for faithful New England fans and pro football buffs alike.