Download or read book Pass Receiving in Early Pro Football written by Jerry Roberts and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big television contracts in the 1960s created the Super Bowl, as well as the 1970 merger of the National Football League with the pass-oriented American Football League. Since then, professional football has been America's most popular televised team sport, developing into a wide-open passing game by the 21st century. Handling the completion side of the aerial game, receivers are not often as celebrated as quarterbacks or coaches, even in the era of San Francisco 49er Jerry Rice's supremacy. This book provides a history of pro pass receiving and its influence on the game prior to the televised era. The author studies pro football's formative and mid-20th century years, highlighting the players who pulled pigskins from flight, like the legendary Don Hutson, Gibby Welch, Johnny Blood, Ray Flaherty, Crazy Legs Hirsch, Mac Speedie, Choo Choo Roberts and many others.
Download or read book Pro Football Guide 1997 written by Sporting News and published by McGraw-Hill/Contemporary. This book was released on 1997-06 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide lets fans relive the 1996 season and offers a glimpse ahead to 1997. Readers will find everything they need to know about the NFL in 1996, including weekly highlights and statistical summaries of every game from Week 1 through the Pro Bowl. The "Guide" also previews the upcoming season with team-by-team schedules, rosters, draft lists, and more. 30 charts & diagrams.
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Download or read book Football Fortunes written by Frank P. Jozsa, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Football may be sport, but the National Football League is at heart a business--how else to account for the stratospheric salaries of the players and coaches? Yet most people are unaware of how that business developed. This book details the growth of an industry that generates billions of dollars in revenue and explains the intricacies of the league's expansions and mergers, territories and relocations; the operation of franchises; the role of stadiums and markets; and the effect of the NFL on domestic and foreign affairs.
Download or read book National Football League Strategies written by Frank P. Jozsa Jr. and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Brief identifies and contrasts the groups of expansion franchises and any teams that relocated from one metropolitan area or city to another within the National Football League (NFL) during three distinct periods from 1920 to 2013. It discusses historical differences and similarities between the teams’ markets and performances before 1933 and then as members of the NFL’s divisions and conferences. It measures and compares the emergence, development and success of the teams by analyzing demographic, economic and sport-specific data. It also discusses the NFL’s mergers with the All American Football Conference (1950) and American Football League (1970), outlining the reasons for and consequences of these mergers as well as their significance for sports fans and markets. The book makes an important, relevant and useful contribution to the literature regarding professional sports operations and to the NFL’s short and long run business strategies in American culture. Besides numerous sports fans within metropolitan areas and extended markets of these NFL teams, the book’s audiences are sports historians and researchers, college and public libraries and current and potential NFL franchise owners and team executives. The book may also be used as a reference or supplemental text for college and university students enrolled in such applied undergraduate and graduate courses and seminars as sports administration, sports business and sports management.
Download or read book How to Beat the Pro Football Pointspread written by Bobby Smith and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2008-10-28 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This indispensable reference for football bettors covers every aspect of betting. Smith teaches how to look at the game with the bettor's eye instead of the fan's, and explains his theories on reasonable statistical expectations.
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Download or read book Pro Football Guide 1999 written by Sporting News and published by Sporting News Publishing Company. This book was released on 1999-06 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything a real fan needs to know for the 2000 NFL season is right here, in one easy-to-use reference book. The Pro Football Guide is packed with must-have information, such as team schedules for the 2000 season, a preview of the coming season, and a review of the 1999 campaign as well as a historical look at year-by-year team and league records -- it's everything a football fan needs!
Download or read book Sports written by Donald L. Deardorff and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-09-30 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide to the available literature on sports in American culture during the last two decades of the 20th century is a companion to Jack Higg's Sports: A Reference Guide (Greenwood, 1982). The types of individual or team sports included in this volume include those that are viewed as physical contests engaged in for physical, emotional, spiritual, or psychological fulfillment. With a focus on books alone, chapters review the available literature regarding sports and each concludes with a bibliography. Academic journals likely to contain articles on the topics discussed are listed at the end of each chapter. Twelve chapters discuss sports and American history, business and law, education, ethnicity and race, gender, literature, philosophy and religion, popular culture, psychology, science and technology, sociology and world history. This reference and guide to further research will appeal to scholars of popular culture and sports. An index and two appendixes are included, one listing important dates in American sports from 1980 through 2000 and one listing sports halls of fame, museums, periodicals, and websites.
Download or read book Pro Football in the 1960s written by Patrick Gallivan and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-06-08 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1960s were a tumultuous period in U.S. history and the sporting world was not immune to the decade's upturn of tradition. As war in Southeast Asia, civil unrest at home and political assassinations rocked the nation, professional football struggled to attract fans. While some players fought for civil rights and others fought overseas, the ideological divides behind the protests and riots in the streets spilled into the locker rooms, and athletes increasingly brought their political beliefs into the sports world. This history describes how a decade of social upheaval affected life on the gridiron, and the personalities and events that shaped the game. The debut of the Super Bowl, soon to become a fixture of American culture, marked a professional sport on the rise. Increasingly lucrative television contracts and innovations in the filming and broadcasting of games expanded pro football's audiences. An authoritarian old guard, best represented by the revered Vince Lombardi, began to give way as star players like Joe Namath commanded new levels of pay and power. And at last, all teams fielded African American players, belatedly beginning the correction of the sport's greatest wrong.
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Download or read book ESPN The Ultimate Pro Football Guide written by Shelly Youngblut and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 1998-08-12 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide is truly the ultimate source for pro football trivia, esoterica, curiosities, stats, anecdotes, rivalries, facts, quotes, and recaps; just about what you'd expect from an ESPN publication. Arranged by team, each section lists the most notable games, players, and coaches in team history, and then asks intriguing questions such as: "Is Dan Marino or Bob Griese the best Miami Dolphin quarterback of all time" Marino by a hair. The Ultimate Pro Football Guide also tells you where to score the best eats and drinks in the respective teams' cities and provides such minutiae as what locals wear to game day, how many times your team has appeared on The Simpsons, and which local columnist you should read on game day. You can't ask for more from a football guide; it makes every team the home team. --Tod Nelson
Download or read book Die Hard Fan s Guide to Buckeye Football written by Mark Rea and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-09-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Diehard Fan's Guide to Buckeye Football takes you back to the humble beginnings of football at The Ohio State University, and works its way "Across the Field" through nearly 120 years of Buckeye football legends. Rea includes complete coverage of the national championship seasons, the rich history of Ohio Stadium, recounts of the Horseshoe's greatest games, and more.
Download or read book Beckett Football Card Price Guide written by Beckett Publications and published by Beckett Publications. This book was released on 2000-08 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new edition of this popular annual guide features more than 4,000 football card sets checklisted and priced. Virtually every football card ever produced! Prices and listings cover the years from 1894 to present. Includes cards from NFL, CFL, USFL, colleges.
Download or read book Entertainment Industry Economics written by Harold L. Vogel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-04-23 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides everything a financial analyst of entertainment needs to know of the sector.
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