The Official Treasures of the National Football League

The Official Treasures of the National Football League
Author: Jim Gigliotti
Publisher: Carlton Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-09
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9781780976891

The National Football League began in 1919 with a dozen franchises; now it has 32 teams in almost every major market across the nation. This living history of the NFL traces the sport back to its amateur roots, and describes the growth of pro football, decade by decade. Special features cover the players, owners, coaches, championship games, draft, and media. Fully illustrated with archival photographs, many rare, as well as images of memorabilia from the Pro Football Hall of Fame, this unique volume also contains removable facsimile reproductions of documents of historic importance. Presented in an attractive slipcase, The Official Treasures of the National Football League is a must-have for every football fan. Fully authorized and produced in partnership with the National Football League and the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Total Football

Total Football
Author: Bob Newhardt Carroll
Publisher: William Morrow
Total Pages: 1652
Release: 1997
Genre: Football
ISBN: 9780062701701

"For the first time ever, you'll find complete statistics for every player who has played even a single game in the NFL. Essays on the history of the game, its championship teams, and most significant games are just the beginning." "Total Football also features articles on the evolution of strategy through the years, team histories, the 300 greatest players, football families, players who enjoyed great public careers after football (such as U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron White), and the most complete lists ever published on team rosters, awards, and the draft."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

NFL Century

NFL Century
Author: Joe Horrigan
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2019-08-27
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1635653606

From the former executive director of the Pro Football Hall of Fame comes a sweeping and lively history of the National Football League, timed to coincide with the NFL’s 100th anniversary season. “I can think of no one better qualified—or more enthusiastic—to chronicle the National Football League’s century-long history than Joe Horrigan.”—Marv Levy, Hall of Fame NFL coach The NFL has come a long way from its founding in Canton, Ohio, in 1920. In the hundred years since that fateful day, football has become America’s most popular and lucrative professional sport. The former scrappy upstart league that struggled to stay afloat has 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 like Vince Lombardi, Joe Montana, and Tom Brady. It is an extraordinary and entertaining history that could be told only by Joe Horrigan, former executive director of the Pro Football Hall of Fame and perhaps the greatest living historian of the NFL, by drawing upon decades of NFL archives. Compelling, eye-opening, and authoritative, NFL Century is a must-read for NFL fans and anyone who loves the game of football. Advance praise for NFL Century “Joe Horrigan takes the reader on a delightful tour of the seminal moments of the NFL in the past one hundred years—the players, owners, coaches, executives, and historical events that made the game of football the most popular in America. It’s a wonderful walk down memory lane for any football fan, young or old.”—Michael Lombardi, author of Gridiron Genius “There is no one—and I mean no one—who knows more about the history of the NFL than Joe Horrigan, the heart and soul of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. As the gold standard of sports leagues celebrates its one hundredth season, it’s appropriate that the gold standard of sports historians has written NFL Century, an entertaining and educational journey.”—Gary Myers, New York Times bestselling author of Brady vs Manning