NFL century : the one-hundred-year rise of America's greatest sports league /
Horrigan, Joe,
NFL century : the one-hundred-year rise of America's greatest sports league / National Football League century Joe Horrigan. - First edition. - xii, 370 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- League talk -- A real sure-enough league -- Growing pains and a name change -- Red Grange turns pro -- February fallout -- Reduced, under lights, and indoors -- Television debuts -- The T-formation and the man-in-motion -- The NFL's first commissioner -- A world at war -- The NFL's four-year war -- The Cleveland Browns' NFL debut -- The NFL's final failed franchises -- The greatest game ever played and the legend of Johnny Unitas -- The "hunt" for a new league -- A compromise candidate, Congress, and TV -- Tough decisions -- A cease-fire and a merger -- Super Bowls I-IV -- Monday Night Football -- The immaculate reception -- A starting quarterback -- The perfect coach for a perfect season -- A rules change, and the decade of the running back -- "Super" defenses -- Rozelle fights through the NFL's lost decade -- The 49ers strike gold -- Tags! You're it -- Jerry Jones buys a team, fires a coach, and gives birth to "the Triplets" -- The Rooney rule -- The NFL responds to national crises -- Krafting a winner-- the New England patriots -- The last commissioner of the NFL's first century.
From the executive director of the NFL Hall of Fame comes a sweeping and lively history of the NFL, timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary season. Compelling, eye-opening, and authoritative, it is a must-read for NFL fans and anyone who loves the game of football. From its founding in Canton, Ohio, in 1920, football has become America's most popular-- and lucrative-- professional sport. It survived a host of challenges-- the Great Depression and World War II, controversies and scandals, battles over labor rights and competition from rival leagues-- to produce American icons and an extraordinary and entertaining history. Horrigan provides a sweeping and lively history of the NFL, timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary season. -- adapted from jacket
9781635653595 1635653592 9781984825278 1984825275
2018057907
National Football League--History.
National Football League--History--20th century.
Football--History.--United States
NFL century : the one-hundred-year rise of America's greatest sports league / National Football League century Joe Horrigan. - First edition. - xii, 370 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- League talk -- A real sure-enough league -- Growing pains and a name change -- Red Grange turns pro -- February fallout -- Reduced, under lights, and indoors -- Television debuts -- The T-formation and the man-in-motion -- The NFL's first commissioner -- A world at war -- The NFL's four-year war -- The Cleveland Browns' NFL debut -- The NFL's final failed franchises -- The greatest game ever played and the legend of Johnny Unitas -- The "hunt" for a new league -- A compromise candidate, Congress, and TV -- Tough decisions -- A cease-fire and a merger -- Super Bowls I-IV -- Monday Night Football -- The immaculate reception -- A starting quarterback -- The perfect coach for a perfect season -- A rules change, and the decade of the running back -- "Super" defenses -- Rozelle fights through the NFL's lost decade -- The 49ers strike gold -- Tags! You're it -- Jerry Jones buys a team, fires a coach, and gives birth to "the Triplets" -- The Rooney rule -- The NFL responds to national crises -- Krafting a winner-- the New England patriots -- The last commissioner of the NFL's first century.
From the executive director of the NFL Hall of Fame comes a sweeping and lively history of the NFL, timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary season. Compelling, eye-opening, and authoritative, it is a must-read for NFL fans and anyone who loves the game of football. From its founding in Canton, Ohio, in 1920, football has become America's most popular-- and lucrative-- professional sport. It survived a host of challenges-- the Great Depression and World War II, controversies and scandals, battles over labor rights and competition from rival leagues-- to produce American icons and an extraordinary and entertaining history. Horrigan provides a sweeping and lively history of the NFL, timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary season. -- adapted from jacket
9781635653595 1635653592 9781984825278 1984825275
2018057907
National Football League--History.
National Football League--History--20th century.
Football--History.--United States