NFL Football A History of America's New National Pastime / Richard C. Crepeau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crepeau, Richard C., 1941- author.

Series:

Sport and society.

Illinois scholarship online.

Illinois scholarship online

Sport and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National Football League.

National Football League--History.

Football.

Football--United States--History.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

University of Illinois Press, Urbana : 2021.

Summary:

This wide-ranging history synthesizes scholarship and media sources to give the reader an inside view of the television contracts, labour issues, and other off-the-field forces that shaped the National Football League.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I The Formative Years

1 The First Pros

2 Depression and War

3 The NFL Comes of Age

II The Rozelle Era

4 Moving to Center Stage

5 A Troubled Decade

6 The Perfect Television Game

7 The Cartel

8 Unraveling

9 Labor Conflict

III The New NFL

10 A New Era

11 New Challenges

12 The Money Tree

13 Super Sunday

Postscript

Appendix A: NFL Franchises

Appendix B: The NFL 100 All-Time Team

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780252052460

0252052463

OCLC:

1195451751