Football category: 4223 books
300 Pounds of Attitude
The Wildest Stories And Craziest Characters The NFL Has Ever Seen
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
One fall night in TK, Steve Sabol of NFL Films answered the door to see his friend, Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Tim “Rosso” Rossovich, standing there literally on fire. After Sabol knocked Rossovich to the ground and put out the fire, Rosso stood up and (without missing a beat) said, “Sorry,...
by Larry E. Horne Sr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Think you know Gators football? Think you have mad-trivia skills when it comes to Urban Meyer, Tim Tebow, or Brandon Spikes? Think you've got the Steve Spurrier, Danny Wuerffel, or Emmitt Smith questions in the bag?
Think again.
It's time to find out how smart you really are about the...
by Mark Ribowsky
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
An action-packed biography of a man, his team, and the league he helped create—in the tradition of Maraniss’s When Pride Still Mattered.
Tom Landry, the coach during professional football's most fabled era, transformed the gridiron from a no-holds-barred battlefield to the technical chess...
Son of Bum
Lessons My Dad Taught Me About Football and Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Legendary football coach and Super Bowl champion with the Denver Broncos, Wade Phillips, recalls his life in football and memories of his father, NFL head coach Bum Phillips, in a book perfect for a Father’s Day gift.
“Having played for and against Wade Phillips, the first word that comes...
by Philip Stevens
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
John Lyall was one of the most successful managers in English football in the 1980s. The former West Ham full-back, forced out of the game by a horrific knee injury at the age of 23, showed immense courage and determination to transform himself into a top coach.In this fascinating insight into English...
RG3
The Promise
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
He’s been called many things—Heisman Trophy winner, MVP, the savior of the Washington Redskins—but to his millions of fans, Robert Griffin III is known simply as RG3.
Robert Griffin III was a preternaturally gifted athlete from a young age, but in those early days he played nearly every sport...
Africa's World Cup
Critical Reflections on Play, Patriotism, Spectatorship, and Space
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Africa’s World Cup: Critical Reflections on Play, Patriotism, Spectatorship, and Spacefocuses on a remarkable month in the modern history of Africa and in the global history of football. Peter Alegi and Chris Bolsmann are well-known experts on South African football, and they have assembled an impressive...
by John M. Brewer, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
The Bulldogs of Westinghouse High School were a legend in mid-century Pennsylvania as perennial Pittsburgh city football champs and much-feared exhibition-game opponents for elite, outlying Western Pennsylvania steel-town teams where many greats like Johnny Unitas, Joe Namath, and Joe Montana were...
Reds
Liverpool Football Club - The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
In Reds, a unique and exhaustively researched history of Liverpool Football Club, John Williams explores the origins and divisive politics of football in the city of Liverpool and profiles the key men behind the emergence of the club and its early successes.
The first great Liverpool manager,...
Fields of Dreams
Grounds that football forgot but the fans never will
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2018
Football is big business. Everybody knows that. Football is also show business - increasingly so as the Premier League clubs offer big money to lure big-time players from around the globe. But the loyalty of long-term fans was nurtured on crumbling terraces and in rickety stands that reared up from...
Carry the Rock
Race, Football, and the Soul of an American City
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
In 1957, nine African American teenagers faced angry mobs and the resistance of a segregationist governor to claim their right to educational equality. The bravery of the Little Rock Nine, as they became known, captured the country's imagination and made history but created deep scars in the community.
Jay...
The Fifty-Year Seduction
How Television Manipulated College Football, from the Birth of the Modern NCAA to the Creation of the BCS
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
For more than a half century, television has played a primary role in securing college football's place as one of America's most popular spectator sports. But it has also been the common denominator in the sport's rise as a big business. Television, which multiplied the number of people who cared...
The Little League That Could
A History of the American Football League
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
Wearing borrowed uniforms, practicing on obscure college campuses, and led by a former Marine Corps W.W. II fighter ace as commissioner, the American Football League (AFL) debuted in the Fall of 1960 to challenge the monopoly of the well-established National Football League. Within ten years it had...
Zulus
Black, White and Blue: The True Story of the Zulu Warriors Football Firm
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
The Zulu Army of Birimigham City occupies a unique place in the annals of terrace violence: Britain's biggest multi-racial football firm.
BBC Journalist Caroline Gall was granted unprecedented access to the gang and spent a year interviewing Zulu leaders and footsoldiers. She traces how they...