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NFL century : the one-hundred-year rise of America's greatest sports league / Joe Horrigan

Author
Horrigan, Joe
Additional Titles
National Football League century
Published
New York : Crown, [2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Description
xii, 370 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

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Contents
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.
Summary
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
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ISBN
9781635653595 hardcover
1635653592 hardcover
9781984825278 trade paperback
1984825275 trade paperback
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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