Football category: 4223 books
Leather Soul
A Half-back Flanker's Rhythm and Blues
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2019
Bob Murphy has never been your average footballer. Music buff, Age columnist and Winnebago driver, he is as comfortable in the corner of a café or grungy pub as he is in the locker room.
Murphy takes us inside his 17-year career, including three years as Bulldogs captain, exploring the people...
Bloody Sundays
Inside the Rough and Tumble World of the NFL
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Award-winning sportswriter Mike Freeman goes beyond day-to-day newspaper journalism and ESPN highlights to take us deep inside the game and reveal the NFL in ways that will surprise the most avid football fans. He travels to the sidelines and into the locker rooms to interview hundreds of players...
Diary of an Unforgettable Season
2006 Ohio State Buckeyes
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
The expectations, and the stakes, are always sky-high when Ohio State University prepares to begin a new football season. For much of this decade, the Buckeyes have entered the season with very real and realistic national championship hopes. Those hopes became a reality in 2002, and in subsequent...
by Britannica Educational Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Odell Beckham Jr. has put together some remarkable numbers to start his National Football League (NFL) career. The son of two Louisiana State University athletes, Beckham's athletic abilities and hard work on the football field have translated into enormous success. From his unbelievable catches to...
Touchdown
The Power and Precision of Football's Perfect Play
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Touchdown: The Power and Precision of Football's Perfect Play takes readers beyond the record books and explores all aspects of bringing the ball into the end zone. From football's very beginnings to the most current action on the field, authors Mark Stewart and Mike Kennedy cover the touchdown in...
Green Bay Packers
Where Have You Gone?
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
With a few exceptions, there is little else that is more important to the typical resident of Wisconsin than the Green Bay Packers. These fans will endure an Arctic freeze, a torrential downpour, or a sweltering August night to watch their beloved Packers. As the famed Lambeau Leap symbolizes, players...
by Marcus Alton
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
Brian Cloughs family are among the many people who describe their personal memories of the charismatic football manager in this unique collection of tributes. Brians widow, Barbara, and their daughter Elizabeth have provided a rare insight into life with the man known as the Master Manager. Barbara...
America's Quarterback
Bart Starr and the Rise of the National Football League
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
A powerful biography of one of the greatest football players of all time, in the spirit of Johnny U and Namath
No one can touch Bart Starr's record setting 5 NFL Championships including 3 straight. America's Quarterback tells the story of the man who helped create the legend of Vince Lombardi...
How to Understand Paul Gascoigne
Lives Less Ordinary
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
The Lives Less Ordinary series brings you the most exciting, adventurous and entertaining true-life writing that is out there, for men who are time-poor but want the best. Lives Less Ordinary drops you into extreme first-hand accounts of human experience, whether that's the adrenaline-pumping heights...
Love Affairs and Marriage
My Life in Football
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
Howard Kendall is one of the greats of English football management and among the defining figures in the history of Everton Football Club. A schoolboy prodigy footballer, he first joined the club from Preston in 1967, forming - with Alan Ball and Colin Harvey -one of the most distinguished midfield...
Get Your Own Damn Beer, I'm Watching the Game!
A Woman's Guide to Loving Pro Football
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2005
Year after year, Sunday afternoons and Monday nights during the NFL season have belonged to men. While they cheer and argue play calls, the women in their lives are relegated to beer and chip detail. It's time for these women to join the action, and Holly Robinson Peete, star of 21 Jump Street, For...
Promises to Keep
My Inspired Run from Syracuse to Denver to the Hall
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
This autobiography traces the life of Floyd Little who was raised in poverty in New Haven, Connecticut, was bowlegged, sent off to military school, and told his IQ was too low to even consider college. He overcame those obstacles to become a three-time All-American football player at Syracuse University...
Tales from the Miami Hurricanes Sideline
A Collection of the Greatest Hurricanes Stories Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
University of Miami football is more than national championships, thirty-game winning streaks, and being a pipeline to the NFL. It’s the Gator Flop, defeating Tulane on a fifth down, and playing three games in eight days. It’s converting third and 44 against Notre Dame, Michael Irvin talking smack...
Next Man Up
A Year Behind the Lines in Today's NFL
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2007
In the NFL there is only one certainty: that every day, someone will have to be the Next Man Up. Football is an unrelentingly punishing sport, played and practiced at undiminished intensity, and it devours its players. Confronting injuries, trades, and the grim reality of competition, every NFL team...