Download or read book For the Love of Football written by Johnny Morgan and published by Summersdale. This book was released on 2017-04-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with facts and trivia, this miscellany takes you through the origins of the game, its key players and famous rivalries, and the triumphs and scandals that colour its history. This book is perfect for anyone who knows the incomparable joy of the beautiful game. AUTHOR: Johnny Morgan has spent a lot of time playing, watching and reading about football. For his sins, he follows the Cherries. SELLING POINT: * With the content focused on football internationally, this book will appeal to football fans across the globe.
Download or read book Do You Love Football written by Jon Gruden and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jon Gruden asks his Tampa Bay Bucs, "Do you love football?!" it's to remind them why they pull on their shoulder pads every Sunday morning. It's not about the money or the fame; it's about their passion for what they do. And passion is something that has fueled Gruden's entire career. From his college playing days and his climb through the coaching ranks -- from college to assistant coaching jobs with the NFL's elite teams, to his first head coach job with the Oakland Raiders, and finally, with the Tampa Bay Bucs -- his meteoric rise is unparalleled. Underneath it all, though, he's just a humble, hardworking, no-nonsense guy who has no hobbies: "I'm not a scratch golfer. I don't know how to bowl. I can't read the stock market. Hell, I have a hard time remembering my wife's cell phone number. But I can call 'Flip Right Double X Jet 36 Counter Naked Waggle at 7 X Quarter' in my sleep." Now, in this motivational memoir, Gruden provides insight into what makes him tick. Do You Love Football?! is an intimate look at his life as a player, coach, and head coach, as well as the principles that have made him the hottest coach in the NFL.
Download or read book The Stronger Women Get the More Men Love Football written by Mariah Burton Nelson and published by PerfectBound. This book was released on 1995 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: Harcourt Brace, 1994.
Download or read book Love Zac written by Reid Forgrave and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The story of a young man from small-town Iowa who decided to take his own life rather than continue his losing battle against the traumatic brain injuries (CTE) he had sustained as a no-holds-barred high school football player, and at the same time a larger story about the hot-button issues that football raises about masculinity and violence, and about what values we want to instill in our kids"--
Download or read book Football written by Allan Morey and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let's play football! Through large, full-color action photographs and simple text, Football introduces beginning readers to the basic rules of the game and encourages them to try playing. A labeled diagram helps readers identify the different areas on a football field, and a picture glossary reinforces new vocabulary. Football also features reading tips for teachers and parents, a table of contents, and an index. Football is part of Jump!'s I Love Sports series.
Download or read book Love Football and Other Contact Sports written by Alden Carter and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stories about high school students from one end of the social spectrum to the other.
Download or read book The Last Game written by Jason Cowley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-04-06 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 26 May 1989, the final day of the season, Arsenal travelled to Anfield to face the mighty Liverpool, needing a two-goal victory to claim a championship that seemed for so many reasons to belong to their opponents. What followed was one of the most remarkable football matches at the end of one of the most dramatic and politically charged seasons in English football history; a season that marked the transition between old and new football and which would come to be seen as a threshold for astonishing changes not just in football but in the wider culture. Featuring interviews with the main players in this drama, including many of the legendary figures who took part in that famous final game, The Last Gameis a probing and resonant work of dramatic reportage that reflects on the stark changes the national sport has undergone in twenty tumultuous years. Journeying from the intense and hostile terraces of the 1980s, where male violence and tribalism coupled with decrepit stadiums led to tragedies like Heysel and Hillsborough, to the new commercialism that has engulfed the modern game, where fans have turned customers and, some say, security has come at the cost of identity, The Last Game tells the story of how a nation was changed by one astonishing game.
Download or read book We Love Football written by Adrian Adams and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2014-04-25 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Football is the greatest game in the world. Place can not be found in the world where it is not played. As Eusebio wisely said: ”Anyone can play whether you are poor or rich. All you need is space and a ball”. Football players and coaches are known from colorful language. Most of the quotes in this book are hilarious. Like Zlatan: "Now I'm here, I think the people in Paris will have something else to see besides the Mona Lisa” Many of the quotes are very inspiring as well. Messi gives us a good example: ”Talent and elegance mean nothing without rigor and precision” Let ́s enjoy players and coaches brightest moments.
Download or read book NFL Confidential written by Johnny Anonymous and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Johnny Anonymous. No, that’s not his real name. But he is a real, honest-to-goodness pro football player. A member of the League. A slave, if you will, to the NFL. For the millions of you out there who wouldn’t know what to do on Sundays if there wasn’t football, who can’t imagine life without the crunch of helmets ringing in your ears, or who look forward to the Super Bowl more than your birthday, Johnny Anonymous decided to tell his story. Written during the 2014–2015 season, this is a year in the life of the National Football League. This is a year in the life of a player—not a marquee name, but a guy on the roster—gutting it out through training camp up to the end of the season, wondering every minute if he’s going to get playing time or get cut. Do you want to know how players destroy their bodies and their colons to make weight? Do you wonder what kind of class and racial divides really exist in NFL locker rooms? Do you want to know what NFL players and teams really think about gay athletes or how the League is really dealing with crime and violence against women by its own players? Do you wonder about the psychological warfare between players and coaches on and off the field? About how much time players spend on Tinder or sexting when not on the field? About how star players degrade or humiliate second- and third-string players? What players do about the headaches and memory loss that appear after every single game? This book will tell you all of this and so much more. Johnny Anonymous holds nothing back in this whip-smart commentary that only an insider, and a current player, could bring. Part truth-telling personal narrative, part darkly funny exposé, NFL Confidential gives football fans a look into a world they’d give anything to see, and nonfans a wild ride through the strange, quirky, and sometimes disturbing realities of America’s favorite game. Here is a truly unaffiliated look at the business, guts, and glory of the game, all from the perspective of an underdog who surprises everyone—especially himself. JOHNNY ANONYMOUS is a four-year offensive lineman for the NFL. Under another pseudonym, he’s also a contributor for the comedy powerhouse Funny Or Die. You can pretty much break NFL players down into three categories. Twenty percent do it because they’re true believers. They’re smart enough to do something else if they wanted, and the money is nice and all, but really they just love football. They love it, they live it, they believe in it, it’s their creed. They would be nothing without it. Hell, they’d probably pay the League to play if they had to! These guys are obviously psychotic. Thirty percent of them do it just for the money. So they could do something else—sales, desk jockey, accountant, whatever—but they play football because the money is just so damn good. And it is good. And last of all, 49.99 percent play football because, frankly, it’s the only thing they know how to do. Even if they wanted to do something “normal,” they couldn’t. All they’ve ever done in their lives is play football—it was their way out, either of the hood or the deep woods country. They need football. If football didn’t exist, they’d be homeless, in a gang, or maybe in prison. Then there’s me. I’m part of my own little weird minority, that final 0.01 percent. We’re such a minority, we don’t even count as a category. We’re the professional football players who flat-out hate professional football.
Download or read book The Joy of Football written by Johnny Morgan and published by Summersdale. This book was released on 2014-07-07 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pocket-sized miscellany, packed with fascinating facts, amusing anecdotes and captivating stories and quotes from the world of football, is perfect for anyone who knows the incomparable joy of the beautiful game.
Download or read book Tribal written by Diane Roberts and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One overeducated Florida State fan confronts the religiously perverted, racially suspect, and sexually fraught nature of the sport she hates to love: college football. Diane Roberts is a self-described feminist with a PhD from Oxford. She's also a second-generation season ticket holder—and an English professor—at one of the elite college football schools in the country. It's not as if she approves of the violence and hypermasculinity on display; she just can't help herself. So every Saturday from September through December she surrenders to her Inner Barbarian. The same goes for the rest of her "tribe," those thousands of hooting, hollering, beer-swilling Seminoles who, like Roberts, spent the 2013–14 season basking in the loping, history-making Hail Marys of Jameis Winston, the team's Heisman-winning quarterback, when they weren't gawking, dumbstruck, at the headlines in which he was accused of sexual assault. In Tribal, Roberts explores college football's grip on the country at the very moment when gender roles are blurring, social institutions are in flux, and the question of who is—and is not—an American is frequently challenged. For die-hard fans, the sport is a comfortable retreat into tradition, proof of our national virility, and a reflection of an America without troubling ambiguities. Yet, Roberts argues, it is also a representation of the buried heart of this country: a game and a culture built upon the dark past of the South, secrets so obvious they hide in plain sight. With her droll Southern voice and a phrase-turning style reminiscent of Roy Blount Jr. and Sarah Vowell, Roberts offers a sociological unpacking of the sport's dubious history that is at once affectionate and cautionary.
Download or read book The Football Book written by DK and published by Dorling Kindersley Ltd. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the ultimate guide for any football fan who wants to know everything about the "beautiful game" - from World Cup winners to football skills and techniques. Whether you are a keen player, a lifelong supporter, or an armchair football manager, this book illustrates every aspect of the most popular sport in the world. The Football Book reveals the story behind the game - from the history of the sport to the results of the Qatar 2022 Men's World Cup, and the build-up to the 2023 Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. Discover everything there is to know on football with this fantastic guide, featuring: - A fresh graphic style illustrates everything from beach football to block tackles. - Stats and fact boxes profile players, managers, fans, national teams, and club. - Special features highlight great matches, stadiums, and football culture. - "Top 5" boxes provide an alternative look at the best and worst of the game Bold step-by-step artworks and jargon-free text profile the roles of players, equipment, team formations, strategies, and individual skills, while maps, quotes, and statistics give you all of the key facts on national teams, famous club sides, and iconic players, as well as the greatest competitions around the world.
Download or read book 12 Reasons to Love Football written by Brian Howell and published by 12-Story Library. This book was released on 2018 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Football is so popular that Super Bowl Sunday is almost a national holiday. With engaging text and colorful photos, this book celebrates everything fans love about the sport, from the NFL to college football to youth leagues.
Download or read book Why We Love Football written by Joe Posnanski and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-09-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving celebration of the history of American football from the New York Times bestselling author of Why We Love Baseball After his bestselling home run books Why We Love Baseball and The Baseball 100, Joe Posnanski turns from the national pastime to the number one sport in America. Why We Love Football is Posnanski’s newest must-have deep dive into the archives and legends of the sport, and the result is a rousing tale of the 100 greatest moments in football lore. This is the best kind of sports writing. Entertaining, enlightening, heartbreaking, hilarious, and always fascinating, these stories of the sport offer a panoramic look across its history. From hidden gems and classic tales to famous moments told from previously unheard perspectives, this book is the football book for even its most ardent fans. From Patrick Mahomes's magic to the Ice Bowl, from Doug Flutie's Hail Mary pass to a plethora of football "miracles," Why We Love Football is an unforgettable, conversational masterpiece you won’t ever want to end, and a can't-miss take on football from one of the greatest sportswriters of our time.
Download or read book The Stronger Women Get the More Men Love Football written by Mariah Burton Nelson and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1994 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can sports tell us about the relationship between men and women in America? Astute, provacative, and full of original research, this book paves the way for a new awareness of the influence of sports on American culture and relationships, for more constructive interaction among people of both sexes. From the author of Are We Winning Yet?.
Download or read book Love and Football written by JOSHUA LEVI BROWN and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love and Football will keep you on the edge! Star quarterback Cimeon and his beautiful cheerleader wife, Ebony, will take you on a suspenseful, exciting, loving, action-packed, funny, emotional ride. The perfect couple. Together since they were five years old. From high school, college, and to the pros, he has remained the baddest quarterback on the planet while she remained the hottest cheerleader on the planet! Boom! She gets kidnapped by the mob! The only way to win her back is to go to the Super Bowl . . . and lose! By the way, she is pregnant! Can he carry his city, his team, and his family on his back? Boom! Touch down! Who wins, love or hate?
Download or read book Scoring Points Love and Football in the Age of AIDS written by Gary D. Gerson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gary Gerson led an uneventful life growing up Jewish in East Tennessee. This changed when he decided to walk onto the Vanderbilt football team with no prior experience, beginning a lifelong love for the game with four years of exhilaration and heartbreak. After juggling the challenges of infatuation, a bowl game, a major steroid scandal and ultimate dishonor at Vandy, Gerson's journeys brought him close to danger in Africa and India, a brush with the Yeti in the Himalaya, and more football in Amsterdam. When he fell in love with Shelley while teaching at the prestigious Cranbrook Kingswood School in Michigan, his journey for meaning took a sharp turn as she revealed her painful secret. Using his wife's triumphs and challenges as motivation, Gerson stepped back onto the football field at the age of 31 in Canada, scoring points along the way to his final personal victory. This book contains frank discussions about sex, relationships, love, AIDS, and death, but it is appropriate for all ages.
