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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Horrigan, Joe, author.     Subjects     National Football League -- History.     National Football League -- History -- 20th century.     Football -- United States -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Horrigan, Joe, author.       by title:      NFL century : the on...         MARC Display

NFL century : the one-hundred-year rise of America's greatest sports league / Joe Horrigan. by Horrigan, Joe, author. New York : Crown, [2019] Subjects National Football League -- History.   National Football League -- History -- 20th century.   Football -- United States -- History. ISBN:  9781635653595 (hardcover) : 1635653592 (hardcover) : Description:  xii, 370 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates (chiefly color) : illustrations ; 25 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  Introduction -- League talk -- A real sure-enough league -- Growing pains and a name change -- Red Grange turns pro -- February fallout -- Reduced, under lights, and indoors -- Television debuts -- The T-formation and the man-in-motion -- The NFL's first commissioner -- A world at war -- The NFL's four-year war -- The Cleveland Browns' NFL debut -- The NFL's final failed franchises -- The greatest game ever played and the legend of Johnny Unitas -- The "hunt" for a new league -- A compromise candidate, Congress, and TV -- Tough decisions -- A cease-fire and a merger -- Super Bowls I-IV -- Monday Night Football -- The immaculate reception -- A starting quarterback -- The perfect coach for a perfect season -- A rules change, and the decade of the running back -- "Super" defenses -- Rozelle fights through the NFL's lost decade -- The 49ers strike gold -- Tags! You're it -- Jerry Jones buys a team, fires a coach, and gives birth to "the Triplets" -- The Rooney rule -- The NFL responds to national crises -- Krafting a winner-- the New England patriots -- The last commissioner of the NFL's first century. Requests:  0 Summary:  From its founding in Canton, Ohio, in 1920, football has become America's most popular-- and lucrative-- professional sport. It survived a host of challenges-- the Great Depression and World War II, controversies and scandals, battles over labor rights and competition from rival leagues-- to produce American icons and an extraordinary and entertaining history. Horrigan provides a sweeping and lively history of the NFL, timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary season. -- adapted from jacket   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status Due Date   Hawaii State Library Art, Music & Recreation 796.33264 Ho Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 796.33264 Horrigan Checked In   Add Copy to MyList CLOSED TEMPORARILY: Honokaa Public Library Adult Nonfiction 796.33264 HORRIGAN Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kihei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 796.33264 Ho Checked out 07/06/2024 Add Copy to MyList Pearl City Public Library Adult Nonfiction 796.33264 Ho Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Thelma Parker Memorial P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 796.33264 Ho Checked In   Add Copy to MyList

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