Football for a buck : the crazy rise and crazier demise of the USFL / Jeff Pearlman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pearlman, Jeff, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

USFL (Organization)--History.

USFL (Organization).

USFL (Organization)--Anecdotes.

Football--United States--History--20th century.

Football.

History.

United States.

Genre:

Anecdotes.

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 366 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Other Title:

United States Football League

Place of Publication:

Boston, Massachusetts : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.

Summary:

"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 named Donald J. Trump. The league featured as many as eighteen teams and included sch superstars as Steve Young, Jim Kelly, Herschel Walker, Reggie White, Doug Flutie, and Mike Rozier. In Football for a Buck, dogged reporter and biographer Jeff Pearlman draws on more than four hundred interviews to unearth all the salty, untold stories of one of the craziest sports entities ever to have captivated America. From excess drug use to airplane brawls and plaer-coach punch-outs, to backroom business deals, to some of the most enthralling and revolutionary football ever seen, Pearlman transports readers back in time to this crazy, boozy, audacious, and unforgettable era of the game. He shows how fortunes were made and lost on the backs of professional athletes, and how, even thirty years ago, Trump was a scoundrel and a spoiler." -- From publisher's description.

Contents:

Prologue

1. Origins

2. Albert C. Lynch

3. Herschel

4. Seasonal

5. Weathering a storm

6. Title dreams

7. Craziness

8. The saviors

9. Wild fields

10. Gerbils and snowballs

11. Falling

12. Movement

13. Wobbling

14. Blank guns

15. Franchises

16. Cancer

17. Legal eagles

18. Suspended

19. Reunion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780544454385

0544454383

OCLC:

1016543809