Football category: 4223 books
You're the Ref
174 Scenarios to Test Your Football Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
When you watch football games, do you feel as if you know as much-maybe more-than the actual refs? Here's your chance to prove it, with Wayne Stewart’s You’re the Ref.
You’re the Ref, first published in 2011 and now newly revised, is divided into five exciting sections covering all three...
Ocho Cinco
What Football and Life Have Thrown My Way
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
The moment I walked out of that tunnel that first time I was in the NFL and saw that 70,000 people, I said, "This is me, this is mine, this is what I was meant to do." Some people get scared that first time. Me? Scared my ass. I was loving it.
NFL superstar Chad Ochocinco is one of...
Muck City
Winning and Losing in Football's Forgotten Town
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
In a town deep in the Florida Everglades, where high school football is the only escape, a haunted quarterback, a returning hero, and a scholar struggle against terrible odds.
The loamy black “muck” that surrounds Belle Glade, Florida once built an empire for Big Sugar and provided much...
Interference
How Organized Crime Influences Professional Football
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
A shocking exposé of widespread corruption and mob influence throughout the National Football League—on the field, in the owners’ boxes, and in the corporate suites
According to investigative journalist Dan E. Moldea, for decades the National Football League has had a strong and unspoken...
by Howie Long, John Czarnecki
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
Tackle football basics in a day? Easy.
If you've ever wanted to know the difference between a touchdown and a touchback, or how a running back's role differs from a linebacker's, this handy guide gets you up-to-speed in no time.
Football Rules & Positions In A Day For Dummies gives...
by Jerry Barca
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Perhaps the best undefeated team in the history of college football—the dramatic true story of the 1988 Notre Dame Fighting Irish and their incredible unbeaten season
Unbeatable is the first book to tell the complete story of the incredible 1988 season that brought the fledgling Fighting...
Resurrection
The Miracle Season That Saved Notre Dame
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Jim Dent, author of the New York Times bestselling The Junction Boys returns with the remarkable and inspiring story of one of the biggest comebacks in college football history.
In the 1960's, Notre Dame's football program was in shambles. Little did anyone know, help was on its way in the...
Ten-Gallon War
The NFL’s Cowboys, the AFL’s Texans, and the Feud for Dallas’s Pro Football Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
“It’s every bit as fascinating to read about the battles between the Cowboys and the Texans as it is to follow today’s never-ending NFL dramas.” —Mike Florio, ProFootballTalk
In the 1960s, on the heels of the “Greatest Game Ever Played,” professional football began to flourish...
by Tom Lemming
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
National recruiting analyst Tom Lemming has become one of the most influential and controversial names in the recruiting business. This book chronicles Lemming's recruiting journey and his passion for the process, which has turned into its own sport. He discusses everything you need to know about...
The Game's Not Over
In Defense of Football
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
On November 17, 1968, the Oakland Raiders staged a last-minute comeback against the New York Jets, scoring two touchdowns in the final minute for a dramatic finale. But there was a problem: no one saw it. NBC, broadcasting the game nationally, cut away with 1:01 remaining and the Jets still leading...
by Keith Salmon
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A book born out of a once in a lifetime trip to Istanbul. Follow one mans life bound by his passion for Liverpool FC. Watch the Hillsborough and Heysel disasters unfold in front of his very eyes, and see how Istanbul heralds an end to his old life and a start to his new life. The journey takes in the...
by Michael Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Despite its immense wealth, and the high public profile it enjoys, English football is not a land of milk and honey. The national side has won the World Cup only once when England staged the tournament in 1966 and the woeful performances in recent years would suggest that Sir Alf Ramsey's success...
by Dean Mansell
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
The universal language of football has provided fans all over the world with memories to cherish for the rest of their lives. Football fans are really one of the same animal, that being a devoted die hard bunch who follow their team through thick and thin, one day hoping for that glorious moment that...
Lamar Hunt
A Life in Sports
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
"I can't separate what part of pro football is business and what part is personal with me," he said. "I just know that it is very important that I succeed."He had loved games as a young boy, had played them as a young man, and now, as a naive but determined 27-year-old in the summer of 1959,...