Catalogue Search | MBRL
Are you sure you want to remove the book from the shelf?
{{itemTitle}}
609
result(s) for
"National Football League"
Sort by:
A Game of Inches
Billy Hopper's life is pretty damn good. He's a wide receiver for the Los Angeles Lobos and he's just been named Rookie of the Year. But he's about to lose it all. On a frigid March morning at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C., Billy wakes up to find that he's been sleeping with a dead girl. And now he's got her blood on his hands-- literally. But he's also got Jack Patterson: a D.C. lawyer who's determined to get to the bottom of the murder and prove Billy's innocence. There's only one problem. They're at war with a powerful, sinister man, and the people closest to Jack are in the line of fire. Can Jack and his team solve this case before his family pays the ultimate price? This latest Jack Patterson thriller exposes the underbelly of the NFL and the role of big money in shady D.C. politics. Believe it or not, murder is just the tip of the iceberg
Book
Never Ask \Why\
When pro football players formed a union to stand up against the NFL for their own interests, they chose lawyer Ed Garvey as their Executive Director. The NFL Players Association (NFLPA), would take on the NFL over player contracts, collective bargaining agreements, and antitrust suits. It lobbied for players' free agency, contract rights, and impartial arbitration of disciplinary disputes. Garvey navigated strikes, lockouts, scabs, stooges, lies, as well as the sports media complex—to maintain players' dignity. According to the league, the players were to take what they were given and \"never ask why.\"
In Never Ask \"Why,\" journalist Chuck Cascio presents the late Garvey's rich account of the early years of the NFLPA, taking readers among the players as they held the league accountable to play fair. Learning from their mistakes, the NFLPA would succeed in curbing commissioner Pete Rozelle's disciplinary power and striking down the Rozelle Rule's absolute control over free agency.
Garvey tells the intimate stories of how pro football players, rivals on the field, rallied together to stand up for themselves. He worked tirelessly to change a system that exploited players and even controlled the media. In the end, Garvey shows how the NFLPA transformed the state of pro sports leagues today and how, even still, they work to keep down the players on whose backs they profit.
eBook
America's game : the NFL at 100
Celebrates \"the first 100 years of the National Football League, interweaving history, personal stories, memories, and observations of some of its greatest players, coaches, and advocates to chronicle football's ... evolution from a fledgling regional fly-by-night operation into a multi-billion global brand and one of America's leading franchises\"--Publisher marketing.
Book
Women's American Football
Tackle football has been primarily viewed as a male sport, but at a
time when men's participation rates are decreasing, an increasing
number of women are entering the gridiron-and they have a long
history of doing so. Women's American Football is a
narrative history of girls and women participating in American
football in the United States since the 1920s, when a women's team
played at halftime during an early NFL game. The women's game
became more organized in 1974, when the National Women's Football
League was established, with notable teams such as the Dallas
Bluebonnets, Toledo Troopers, Oklahoma City Dolls, and Detroit
Demons. Today there are two main professional leagues in the United
States: the Women's Football Alliance, with nearly seventy teams,
and the Women's National Football Conference, with eighteen, in
addition to a number of smaller leagues. The National Association
of Intercollegiate Athletics and the NFL have recently begun
sponsoring flag football teams at the college level, and the game
is growing for high school girls as well. In 2021 more than two
thousand girls played on mostly boys' teams, and there are
currently four all-girls leagues in the United States and Canada,
in Manitoba, Utah, Indiana, and New Brunswick. In addition to the
rapid growth of women playing football, there have been
advancements in other areas of the game. Beginning with Jennifer
Welter in 2015, several women have earned positions coaching the
professional game. In 2020 ESPN aired Born to Play , a
documentary on the Boston Renegades, the 2019 champion of the
Women's Football Alliance. Based on extensive interviews with women
players and focusing closely on leagues, teams, and athletes since
the passage of Title IX in 1972, Russ Crawford illuminates the rich
history of the women who have played football, breaking barriers on
and off the field.
eBook
NFL 100 : the greatest moments of the NFL's century
A retrospective of 100 moments in the National Football League's history.
Book
National Football League franchises
The National Football League (NFL) is the most influential, popular, and prosperous professional sports league in America.As such this book focuses on the development and maturity of the organization and its members, but most importantly, how each of them performed in seasons and postseasons and then to what extent they have succeeded as a.
eBook
The man who built the National Football League : Joe F. Carr
Founded in 1920, the National Football League chose famed athlete Jim Thorpe as its first president, a position he held briefly until a successor was elected. From 1921 to 1939, Joe F. Carr guided the sport of professional football with intelligence, hard work, and a passion that built the foundation of what the NFL has become: the number one sports organization in the world. During his eighteen-year tenure as NFL President, Carr created the organization's first Constitution & By-Laws; implemented the standard player's contract; wrote the NFL's first-ever Record and Fact Book; helped split the NFL into two divisions and establish the NFL's World Championship Game; started keeping league statistics; and developed the NFL Draft. But Carr's greatest achievement was creating a vision for the NFL as a big-city sport. By skillfully recruiting financially capable owners to operate NFL franchises in big market cities, he created the solid foundation for the league's successful future.
While the sport has grown to unheard of heights, Carr's name and accomplishments have been lost and forgotten. The Man Who Built the National Football League: Joe F. Carr captures the life and career of this pivotal figure in professional sports, chronicling the many achievements of a man whose vision helped shaped what the NFL is today. With unlimited access and complete cooperation from the Carr family—including family interviews, personal letters, and family photos—as well as NFL League Minutes, Willis recounts the fascinating life and career of a man dedicated to the game.
eBook
Pigskin Nation
Cast as the ultimate hardhats, football players of the 1960s seemed to personify a crewcut traditional manhood that channeled the Puritan work ethic. Yet, despite a social upheaval against such virtues, the National Football League won over all of America-and became a cultural force that recast politics in its own smashmouth image. Jesse Berrett explores pro football's new place in the zeitgeist of the 1960s and 1970s. The NFL's brilliant harnessing of the sports-media complex, combined with a nimble curation of its official line, brought different visions of the same game to both Main Street and the ivory tower. Politicians, meanwhile, spouted gridiron jargon as their handlers co-opted the NFL's gift for spectacle and mythmaking to shape a potent new politics that in essence became pro football. Governing, entertainment, news, elections, celebrity--all put aside old loyalties to pursue the mass audience captured by the NFL's alchemy of presentation, television, and high-stepping style. An invigorating appraisal of a dynamic era, Pigskin Nation reveals how pro football created the template for a future that became our present.
eBook