Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Football --- Economic aspects --- National Football League.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Professional football today is an

Football --- Management. --- Marketing. --- National Football League.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

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.

Football --- History. --- National Football League. --- National Football League --- History. --- United States.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

"When we think about "the '60s," most of us know where the era's major confrontations took place--outside the Pentagon, on college campuses, in the streets of Chicago. Not on the sidelines of a football field. Yet football was the sport of the decade. What did it say that Americans craved regular doses of televised but rule-bound mayhem at the same time that real violence involving Americans roughly the same age was taking place half a world away? The game's militaristic aura suggests a simple story: brutish, crewcut traditionalism opposing itself to the gentle, peace-loving vibe of hippie protestors. Whatever your political perspective, the NFL tried to convince you that you could enjoy the game. Pigskin Nation argues that we can better understand the decade's political battles by paying attention to these collisions between football and many different people's visions of America. The NFL's attempts to define football to America at large produced a sports-entertainment complex that helped define "the new politics." In a society where Americans across the political spectrum were busily "politicizing" things, the NFL itself, players, coaches, and fans--some as prominent as the President and Vice-President--leveraged the game's political implications to shape a post-'60s language built on spectacle. Politics and sports and celebrity and news all became part of a grander cycle focused less on traditional party loyalties and more on presentation, television, and style. Pigskin Nation tells the story of how the spectacle of football made its way into politics and culture and created a new template for the future"--

Political culture --- Football --- History --- Political aspects --- National Football League

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

""A tight, dramatic NFL playoff game is exciting on its own, but two of the most dramatic in the same afternoon might result in the most compelling day in football history. This book is the first to capture the excitement and tension of December 23, 1972, when Pittsburgh played Oakland and Dallas met San Francisco in a pair of first-round playoff games that captivated millions. One game saw Dallas rally from three scores down in the fourth quarter, while the other featured the most famous ending in league history-the Immaculate Reception. This book details both high-stakes games as well as the historic season that led each team to the 1972 playoffs. Also covered are the men behind the miracles-some captured the moment to become heroes and legends, while others let success slip through their grasp. Two games, one afternoon, countless memories."-Provided by publisher"--

Harris, Franco, --- Staubach, Roger, --- National Football League --- History --- Playoffs (Football)