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Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
373 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Description
"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,...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
vii, 229 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
With the help of numerous interviews and humorous anecdotes, Billick, the former Super Bowl-winning leader and longtime coach of the Baltimore Ravens, details the workings of professional football, both on and off the field, as well as examining the difficulties of being a head coach.
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.
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
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
371 pages.
Description
"For almost twenty years now, the NFL has been simultaneously an athletic, financial, and cultural powerhouse-and a league that can't seem to go more than a few weeks without stumbling into a scandal. Whether it's about domestic violence, performance-enhancing drugs, racism, or head trauma, the NFL always seems to be in some kind of trouble. Yet no matter the drama, the TV networks keep showing games, the revenue keeps going up, and the viewers keep...
7) Draft day
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (ca. 110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On the day of the NFL Draft, general manager Sonny Weaver has the opportunity to save football in Cleveland when he trades for the number one pick. He must quickly decide what he's willing to sacrifice in pursuit of perfection as the lines between his personal and professional life become blurred on a life-changing day for a few hundred young men with dreams of playing in the NFL.
8) The last headbangers: NFL football in the rowdy, reckless '70s, the era that created modern sports
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
278 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
357 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"Feinstein builds his profile around five NFL starting quarterbacks - Alex Smith, Andrew Luck, Joe Flacco, Ryan Fitzpatrick and Doug Williams. With incredible inside access, we get the full quarterback experience...being drafted #1 overall, pushing through grueling injuries, winning Super Bowls, being named a starter on multiple teams, being the first African American QB to lead a franchise to a title. Feinstein shows us exactly what it's like in...
10) Draft day
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On the day of the NFL Draft, general manager Sonny Weaver has the opportunity to save football in Cleveland when he trades for the number one pick. He must quickly decide what he's willing to sacrifice in pursuit of perfection as the lines between his personal and professional life become blurred on a life-changing day for a few hundred young men with dreams of playing in the NFL.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
x, 306 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Description
"In the long annals of sports and crime, no story compares to the one that engulfed the Luckman family in 1935. As eighteen-year-old Sid Luckman made headlines across New York City for his football exploits at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, his father, Meyer Luckman, was making headlines in the same papers for a very different reason: the gangland murder of his own brother-in-law. Amazingly, after Sid became a star at Columbia and then led...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xvi, 317 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
"Chronicles the lives of four incredible men, the racism they experienced as Black players entering a segregated sport, the burden of expectation they carried, and their many achievements, which would go on to affect football for generations to come"--
Author
Description
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...
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