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Starting with the foundation of the fledgling NFL in the 1920s and leading right up the thrilling finish at the most recent Super Bowl, The Great Book of Football highlights the best players of every era, the games that separated the boys from the men, and the off-the-field shenanigans and twists of fate that have seen the league go from Midwestern distraction to international obsession. There are lots of football books out there, but The Great Book of Football takes you inside the action from the huddle to the locker room to the draft room to the owners box. And every chapter ends with trivia questions that are sure to stump your NFL-crazy friends at your next Sunday afternoon watch party.
From Red Grange and Sammy Baugh to Tom Brady and J.J. Watt, the best of every era is highlighted, analyzed, and celebrated.
Learn the secrets of the unstoppable Wing-T offense; relive Broadway Joes Namath legendary Super Bowl guarantee; go behind enemy lines to witness the birth of Pittsburghs Steel Curtain defense; and take pride in how players, owners, and fans have responded to Americas greatest battles, from World War II to Hurricane Katrina to September 11.
It doesnt matter if its Super Bowl Sunday or the heart of the offseason, The Great Book of Football is one of those NFL football books that you just wont be able to put down.
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The Great Book of Football
Interesting Facts and Sports Stories
Sports Trivia Vol.2
Bill ONeill
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Ryan Black
Copyright 2017 by LAK Publishing
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If you love the NFL, youve got the perfect book in your hands. This is a celebration of American football played at its highest formin the National Football League. From Gale Sayers and George Halas to Tom Brady and Bill Belichick, the NFL has never lacked for characters, championships, courage, or controversy. Through it all, the passion and love felt by the hands for this uniquely American game have endured and propelled the league higher and higher in terms of popularity and world recognition.
Of course, telling all those stories would take a lifetime to research, a decade to write, and a year or two to read! In this edition, weve taken some of the greatest stories from across the nearly 100-year history of the NFL and presented them in digestible form, spread across seven chapters that span the leagues history.
There are ten stories per chapter along with fifteen astonishing facts, figures, and statistics that youll have to read to believe, along with five trivia questions that will test your mettle as an NFL fan and let you in turn stump your football-loving friends next time you get together to watch a game.
Whether its the morning of the Super Bowl or the middle of the offseason, this book is the perfect pigskin companion for any avid football fan. Lets kick it off!
The early days of the NFL make it rather amazing that the league has lasted so long. There were ten teams in four states, everyone wore a leather helmet they could fold up and put in their pocket, and franchises with names like the Muncie Flyers and Toledo Maroons actually existed.
If youve never heard of the Hupmobile, youre not alone. This brand of automobile started up in 1909 and had vanished from the marketplace by World War II. Yet it was at a Hupmobile dealership in a little town called Canton, Ohio, that the NFL was originally brought together. It was only the teams of the Ohio League that first day as the American Professional Football Conference was formed. A month later, the league was renamed the American Professional Football Association, with Buffalo, Rochester, Detroit, and Hammond coming in along with a few others. The original eleven franchises put together a charter saying they would not steal players from one another (a practice called poaching back in the day), and they would declare an end-of-season champion.
The first league president was American legend Jim Thorpe, who was also still an active player at the time. The first season, in 1920, was full of scheduling flaws and stumbling blocks, and only four of the eleven teams finished their seasons entirely, with the Akron Pros named league champions. The following year, membership doubled to 22 teams, with most of the newcomers hailing from New York State. Just two teams from that original year are still in the league. The Decatur Staleys eventually became the Chicago Bears, while the Chicago Cardinals eventually moved to St. Louis and then out west to Arizona. While baseball struggled with allowing black players into the late 1940s, the NFL originally allowed them to play, but stopped that practice in 1927, going nearly twenty years before reintegrating. The league had been close to forming twice before in the 1910s. The first time, it was cut short by the US entry into World War I. The second time, a flu pandemic that began in 1918 and killed 3-5 percent of the worlds population limited travel of teams, as 28% of the US contracted the disease, and a horrifying estimate of between 500,000-675,000 died.
If Jim Thorpe were a young man today, he would have 500 million followers on Twitter, make $500 million a year in endorsements, and have a 24-hour news channel dedicated solely to his every move. Thorpe was the great American athlete in the time before Babe Ruth started slamming home runs every other day. A member of the Sac and Fox Nation, he was born in 1887 in what is now Oklahoma. In 1904, at age 16, Thorpe went to Carlisle Indian Industrial School and was coached by none other than Glenn Scobey Pop Warner. He competed in football, baseball, lacrosse, and everyones favorite sport, ballroom dancing, in which he won the 1912 intercollegiate championship. Ironically, Warner didnt want him playing football because he was so incredible on the track. At Carlisle College, he played running back, defensive back, placekicker, and punter, and scored all his teams points in an 18-15 upset win of No. 1 Harvard.
In 1912, Carlisle won the national title as Thorpe rushed for 1,869 yards on just 191 carries, scoring 25 touchdowns. He also competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics in the decathlon and pentathlon, winning gold in both events and winning eight of the fifteen competitions outright. He went on to play a smattering of seasons of Major League Baseball with the New York Giants, Cincinnati Reds, and Boston Braves over the next few years, but also went back to his first love of football. He signed with the Canton Bulldogs in 1915 for the large sum of $250 per game, and the teams attendance rose from 1,200 to 8,000 per game. Canton won the league title in 1916, 1917, and 1919, and joined the APFA in 1920 with Thorpe as president. He played until age 41, having racked up 52 NFL games for six teams from 1920-1928.
There had been a semipro team in Green Bay, Wisconsin, as early as 1896, and Earl Lambeau and George Calhoun were determined to follow suit in the late 1910s. Lambeau and Calhoun had been rivals on the high school football field but now teamed up to make something special happen. Lambeau had been the captain of Green Bay East High Schools football team and its captain in 1917. In 1918, he played for Knute Rockne at Notre Dame. The team formed in 1919, didnt field a team in 1920, then joined the newly formed NFL on August 27, 1921. Theyve played in the NFL every year since, the longest consecutive franchise in the league. Within their first decade on the field, the Packers became the class of the league. In 1927, they went 7-2-1 under Lambeaus leadership as a player and coach. Only the New York Giants (11-1-1) were better.
They went 12-0-1 in 1929, shutting out eight of their thirteen opponents. For the entire season, they allowed just 22 pointsthree touchdowns and a pair of safeties. In their showdown with perennial power New York, they trounced the Giants 20-6.
They repeated as league champions in 1930 and 1931, with their first crop of Hall of Famers like Mike Michalske, Johnny McNally, Carl Hubbard, and folk hero Arnie Herber, a Green Bay native. During that first heyday, the Packers won 29 straight home games, a record that has never been broken. They ended the year with three straight shutouts, and a crowd of 20,000 fans greeted them when they blasted their biggest rival, the Chicago Bears, 25-0 to end the season.
They went 10-3-1 in 1930, finishing mere percentage points ahead of the Giants (13-4) for the title. They split their season series with New York, winning 14-7 at home and losing 13-6 on the road. In 1931, the Packers became the first team to win three NFL titles in a row when they finished the season with a 12-2 record. This time, their closest rival was the Portsmouth Spartans, who went 11-3. In all, the Packers would win eleven titles between 1929-1967 and have added four Super Bowl wins since.
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