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1) The last headbangers: NFL football in the rowdy, reckless '70s, the era that created modern sports
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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
278 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Author
Publisher
Dey Street Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xv, 522 pages, 8 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
"Rice and Williams trace pro football's grand transformation from a loose coalition of regional teams constantly on the verge of collapse to surviving the Great Depression and World War II, to its eventual preeminence as an international phenomenon."--adapted from jacket
Author
Publisher
ESPN Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
xix, 312 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
A leading professional football analyst, best known for his game tape breakdowns on Monday Night Football, isolates seven historically significant games in which famous coaches demonstrated ideal executions of innovative strategies.
Series
30 for 30 volume 1, dvd 1
Publisher
ESPN
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 155 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Kings ransom: Shows how the National Hockey League was forever changed when the Edmonton Oilers sent superstar Wayne Gretzky to the Los Angeles Kings. The band that wouldn't die: Tells the story of Baltimore's loss of the Colts to Indianapolis through the eyes of the Colts' Marching Band. Small potatoes--who killed the USFL?: Formed and highly touted in 1983, the U.S. Football League eventually floundered.
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When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, college football was at the height of its popularity. As the nation geared up for total war, one branch of the service dominated the aspirations of college football stars: the United States Marine Corps. Which is why, on Christmas Eve of 1944, when the 4th and 29th Marine regiments found themselves in the middle of the Pacific Ocean training for what would be the bloodiest battle of the war - the invasion of...
Author
Publisher
Bold Type Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
304 pages
Description
"In the early 1970s, a businessman had a brilliant idea: why not start a women's football league? It was conceived as a gimmick and a publicity stunt to capitalize on the popularity of Second Wave Feminism and the passage of Title IX. He recruited women across the country; much to his surprise, he learned that women really wanted to play, and play hard. Hail Mary is the story of the unlikely rise of the National Women's Football League and the players...
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