Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | MacCambridge, Michael |
| Publisher: | Anchor |
| Date: | 10/18/2005 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
It’s difficult to imagine today—when the Super Bowl has virtually become a nationalholiday and the National Football League is the country’s dominant sports entity—butpro football was once a ramshackle afterthought on the margins of the American sportslandscape. In the span of a single generation in postwar America, the game chartedan extraordinary rise in popularity, becoming a smartly managed, keenly marketedsports entertainment colossus whose action is ideally suited to television and whosesensibilities perfectly fit the modern age.
America’s Game traces pro football’sgrand transformation, from the World War II years, when the NFL was fighting forits very existence, to the turbulent 1980s and 1990s, when labor disputes and off-fieldscandals shook the game to its core, and up to the sport’s present-day preeminence.A thoroughly entertaining account of the entire universe of professional football,from locker room to boardroom, from playing field to press box, this is an essentialbook for any fan of America’s favorite sport.
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