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Brand NFL : making and selling America's favorite sport / Michael Oriard.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Oriard, Michael, 1948-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Football--United States--Marketing.
Football.
Football--United States--Management.
National Football League.
Management.
Marketing.
United States.
Physical Description:
326 pages ; 25 cm
Place of Publication:
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2007]
Summary:
Professional football today is a $6 billion sports entertainment industry. In this astute field-level view of the National Football League since 1960, Michael Oriard looks closely at the development of the sport and at the image of the NFL and its unique place in American life. At the heart of this story is a question with no simple answer: has the extraordinary commercializing and "branding" of NFL football since the late 1980s ironically weakened the cultural power of a sport whose appeal for more than a century was fundamentally noncommercial?
Contents:
The creation of the modern NFL in the 1960s
No freedom, no football
The end of the Rozelle era
The new NFL
Football as product
Football in black and white.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780807831427
0807831425
OCLC:
85783394

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