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Wedded to the game : the real lives of NFL women / Shannon O'Toole.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Toole, Shannon, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Football players--Family relationships--United States.
- Football players.
- Football players' spouses--United States--Interviews.
- Football players' spouses.
- Wives--Effect of husband's employment on--United States.
- Wives.
- National Football League.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 196 p., [8] p. of plates ) ill. ;
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2006]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Shannon O'Toole holds a master's degree in sociology from Western Michigan University. Her husband, John Morton, has played wide receiver in the NFL, the CFL, and the NFL-sponsored World League and coached in the NFL for eight years. A member of the North American Society for the Study of Sport, O'Toole writes book reviews for newspapers and sports-related Web sites.
- Contents:
- Flowers and first downs
- In pursuit of an NFL dream
- A year in the life
- Sundays are more than "just a game"
- A woman in a man's game
- Hello-good-bye in the not-for-long league
- Raising football kids
- Big time money? not for everyone
- NFL beatings and cheatings
- Turn out the lights, the party's over.
- Notes:
- "A Bison original"--P. [4] of cover.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786610423972
- 9780803276697
- 0803276699
- 9781280423970
- 1280423978
- 9780803256385
- 0803256388
- OCLC:
- 958508748
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