Catalog Search Results
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"The United States Football League--known fondly to millions of sports fans as the USFL--was the last football league to challenge the NFL while causing its owners and executives to collectively shudder. It spanned three seasons, from 1983 to 1985, secured multiple television deals, drew millions of fans, and launched the careers of legends. But then it died beneath the weight of a particularly egotistical and bombastic owner, a New York businessman...
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
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2017].
Description
This book tells the story of professional football in the 1950s and 60s through the words of the players themselves. The chapters are full of anecdotes and reflections on the best and toughest players of the era, while two additional chapters include humorous quotes and the players' thoughts on how the game has changed since their heyday.
5) The last headbangers: NFL football in the rowdy, reckless '70s, the era that created modern sports
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
c2012
Didn't find what you were looking for? Request an interlibrary loan.
Items not owned by a GMILCS library can be requested from other NHAIS Interlibrary Loan System libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Recommend a purchase
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Purchase Request Service. Submit Request