Football Game I'll Never Forget

Football Game I'll Never Forget

Author: Chris McDonell

Publisher: Turtleback Books

Published: 2004-08-01

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 9781417664320

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One hundred NFL players share their "best game ever" stories with the editors of "Football Digest."


The NFL in the 1970s

The NFL in the 1970s

Author: Joe Zagorski

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2016-07-08

Total Pages: 445

ISBN-13: 0786497904

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The 1970 merger between the American Football League and the National Football League laid the foundation for a stronger brand of gridiron competition, providing a new level of excitement for fans. This book examines each year of the NFL's pivotal decade in detail, covering the great names, great rivalries and great games, as well as the key changes in both strategy and rules. Along the way, the author explains how pro football developed into a near-religious American tradition.


The Ultimate Super Bowl Book

The Ultimate Super Bowl Book

Author: Robert McGinn

Publisher: MVP Books

Published: 2012-09-15

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 1610586697

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With a television viewership of over 100 million people and hundreds of millions of dollars spent each year on tickets, concessions, and merchandise alone, the Super Bowl is the greatest game on Earth. Offering in-depth analysis, detailed statistics, play-by-play recaps, and post-game insights for every Super Bowl ever played, The Ultimate Super Bowl Book is the most definitive reference to this iconic sporting event, exploring all the high and lows from more than four decades of gridiron drama, with stories and quotes from the men who made history on football’s biggest stage. In addition to a comprehensive examination of each Super Bowl played since 1967, the book presents features on the greatest individual performances in Super Bowl history—from Joe Namath to Joe Montana, Tom Brady to Aaron Rodgers, Marcus Allen to Emmitt Smith, Jack Lambert to James Harrison—and the best and worst decisions by some legendary coaches, including Vince Lombardi, Chuck Noll, Bill Parcells, Bill Belichick, Mike McCarthy, and more. Author Bob McGinn weighs in on the biggest Super Bowl shockers, the worst blunders, and the most entertaining characters. Quotes from players and coaches take you to the sidelines and into the huddle with the greatest teams in Super Bowl History, including the Green Bay Packers, Pittsburgh Steelers, Dallas Cowboys, New England Patriots, and more. No sporting event can compete with the Super Bowl—and no book can compete with this one as the ultimate reference to the ultimate game!


Jerry Rice

Jerry Rice

Author: Jon Sterngass

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 0791096076

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An introducton to the life and career of NFL great Jerry Rice.


Still Remembering...

Still Remembering...

Author: Shari Edwards

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2005-03

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 0595347207

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A collection of columns originally written for the Sacramento Valley Mirror newspaper. Many concern the writer's memories of growing up in central California.


Football Disasters: The moments we will never forget

Football Disasters: The moments we will never forget

Author: Caroline Elwood-Stokes

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2020-02-06

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 024486005X

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It seems that we can divide the world-history of football-related deaths into three periods. The early period, 1900-1959, contains from 0 to 3 tragedies per decade. Deaths were very rare - but were tremendously tragic when they happened. Take for instance the very first incident occurring on the 5th of April in 1902 at Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow, where Scotland played England in the British Home Championship. At the time it was considered to be the most prestigious international tournament in the world and would therefore draw a large audience. While the game was being played the newly built wooden West Stand broke under the weight of the excited crowd. People fell several meters down and on top of each other - resulting in 26 people dying and 517 being injured. Blame was put on the rain that had fallen the night before the game, causing the wooden construction to become unstable. Arena architects abandoned wood as material for higher audience facilities after this episode. But what caused the other disasters?


Wait

Wait

Author: Frank Partnoy

Publisher: PublicAffairs

Published: 2012-06-26

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1610390059

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What do these scenarios have in common: a professional tennis player returning a serve, a woman evaluating a first date across the table, a naval officer assessing a threat to his ship, and a comedian about to reveal a punch line? In this counterintuitive and insightful work, author Frank Partnoy weaves together findings from hundreds of scientific studies and interviews with wide-ranging experts to craft a picture of effective decision-making that runs counter to our brutally fast-paced world. Even as technology exerts new pressures to speed up our lives, it turns out that the choices we make -- unconsciously and consciously, in time frames varying from milliseconds to years -- benefit profoundly from delay. As this winning and provocative book reveals, taking control of time and slowing down our responses yields better results in almost every arena of life -- even when time seems to be of the essence. The procrastinator in all of us will delight in Partnoy's accounts of celebrity "delay specialists," from Warren Buffett to Chris Evert to Steve Kroft, underscoring the myriad ways in which delaying our reactions to everyday choices -- large and small -- can improve the quality of our lives.


Sports Illustrated Great Football Writing

Sports Illustrated Great Football Writing

Author: Editors of Sports Illustrated

Publisher: Time Home Entertainment

Published: 2012-10-30

Total Pages: 627

ISBN-13: 1603204601

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For more than 50 years, Sports Illustrated has been the gold standard of sports writing, and during that time, football—once a popular college pastime but only a rag-tag professional game—has moved to center stage, taking its unquestioned place as America’s most popular sport. This book brings together dozens of football classics from the pages of SI, featuring the work of such esteemed writers as John O’Hara and Jack Kerouac, Dan Jenkins and George Plimpton, Don DeLillo and John Undrwood and John Ed Bradley. And, of course, the collection includes many of the longtime favorites of SI readers: Frank Deford and Rick Reilly, Steve Rushin and Gary Smith, Peter King and Rick Telander and the inimitable Dr. Z, Paul Zimmerman. Covering more than half a century of the game at every level from high school to the Super Bowl, this volume will be indispensable reading for serious football fans.


You're OK, It's Just A Bruise

You're OK, It's Just A Bruise

Author: Rob Huizenga

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1995-08-15

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780312136277

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Chosen by The Sporting News as one of the Best Sports Books of 1994, this dramatic, hilarious, and controversial insider's look at what really happens on the sidelines and in the locker rooms of the NFL--written by the former team doctor for the L.A. Raiders--is a book every football fan will want to read.