Football category: 4223 books

The Genius is the gripping and definitive account of Bill Walsh’s career and how he built a football dynasty from the rubble of a fallen franchise. David Harris gives a stellar account of the silver-haired sophisticate from humble working-class roots who was hired as head coach and general manager...

The New York Times bestselling gripping account of a once-in-a-lifetime football team and their lone championship season For Rich Cohen and millions of other fans, the 1985 Chicago Bears were more than a football team: they were the greatest football team ever—a gang of colorful nuts, dancing...

 Tom Brady: New England's Superstar Born on August 3, 1977 in San Mateo, California, Tom Brady had a background in baseball and football prior to being picked to play with the New England Patriots in 2000. Dealing with coach Bill Belichick, he's led the group to 3 Super Bowls champions,...

Rocky Fletcher is being stretched to his limit. Until recently, he'd only played wide receiver for the Pythons. Now his coaches want him to learn the safety position, too-a position that opened up when Bobby, Rocky's best friend, broke his leg. Even though he believes he is to blame for Bobby's injury,...

Millions watch football games at fields, stadiums, or on TV. Others listen to games on the radio. Youths play the game in backyards and schoolyards, getting great exercise, working on their skills, and attending practices to learn more about a fantastic and fun team sport. Whether you recently...

I couldn’t have been more than four years old when I went into the kitchen where mom was cooking, and told her I wanted to be a football player when I grew up. She asked me, “how do you know that Trey?” I answered telling her that football was my favorite sport. Mom told me I was only...

Ohio State has had one of the most winning teams in college football for nearly a hundred years. The Buckeyes have won seven national titles and been conference champion thirty-four times. Seven of its players have received the Heisman Trophy and seventy-eight have been named All American. Thirty...

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Football, Second Edition, provides new and intermediate football fans with all the information they need to understand and enjoy football. From high school to the NFL, coverage includes the basics of offense and defense, players, rules, strategies and even...

“PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL PLAYERS DO NOT SUSTAIN FREQUENT REPETITIVE BLOWS TO THE BRAIN ON A REGULAR BASIS.” So concluded the National Football League in a December 2005 scientific paper on concussions in America’s most popular sport. That judgment, implausible even to a casual fan, also contradicted...

'Football looked at in a very different way' Pat Nevin, former Chelsea and Everton star and football media analyst Football – the most mathematical of sports. From shot statistics and league tables to the geometry of passing and managerial strategy, the modern game is filled with numbers,...

How to Beat the Pro Football Pointspread will set bettors on a confidence-building path lined with high-priority realities which for decades have flown under the typical football bettor's radar. Smith emphasizes that pure football knowledge must be absorbed, then applied to the world of pointspreads....

‘Not since The Football Man has a book so captured the passion of the game**.** The Bottom Corner is a wonderful journey through life in the lower reaches of the football pyramid**. A** fascinating tale of a very different world of football from that of the overpaid stars of the television age’...

There have been football books which have told their tale through the partisan heart of a besotted fan, and those that have dissected their subject through the scientific mind of an objective writer. But rarely does one fuse the blind passion of a lifelong supporter with the cold eye of an award-winning...

It's easy to be a Monday-morning quarterback, but the true football fan has the answers all week long. Doug Lennox, the all-pro of Q&A, leads the drive as he tells us why a touchdown is worth six points, who first decided to pick up the ball and throw it, and how a children's toy changed the sport's...