Michael MacCambridge
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2004
Description
It's difficult to imagine today-when the Super Bowl has virtually become a national holiday and the National Football League is the country's dominant sports entity-but pro football was once a ramshackle afterthought on the margins of the American sports landscape. In the span of a single generation in postwar America, the game charted an extraordinary rise in popularity, becoming a smartly managed, keenly marketed sports entertainment colossus whose...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2009
Description
With the help of numerous interviews and humorous anecdotes, Billick, the former Super Bowl-winning leader and longtime coach of the Baltimore Ravens, details the workings of professional football, both on and off the field, as well as examining the difficulties of being a head coach.