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

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

Language

eng

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plates

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

NFL century

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electronic resource eBook

Nature of contents

dictionaries

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Joe Horrigan

Sub title

the one-hundred-year rise of America's greatest sports league

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

Table Of Contents

League talk -- A real sure-enough league -- Growing pains and a name change -- Red Grange turns pro -- February fallout -- Reduced, under lights, and outdoors -- 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

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National Football League century

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