Acknowledgments
Introduction
I The Formative Years
1 The First Pros
2 Depression and War
3 The NFL Comes of Age
II The Rozelle Era
4 Moving to Center Stage
5 A Troubled Decade
6 The Perfect TV Game
7 The Cartel
8 Unraveling
9 Labor Conflict
III The New NFL
10 A New Era
11 New Challenges
12 The Money Tree
13 Super Sunday
Postscript
Appendix A: NFL Franchises
Appendix B: The NFL 100 All-Time Team
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Richard C. Crepeau is a professor of history at the University of Central Florida and former president of the North American Society for Sports History. He is the author of Baseball: America's Diamond Mind, 1919-1941.
"Creapeau's book examines the NFL as a business and a cultural
phenomenon. It succeeds on both accounts. Anyone looking for a
short overview of the NFL's meteoric rise to America's national
pastime should begin with Crepeau's book." --Journal of Sport
History "The updates to this new edition of NFL Football have made
Richard C. Crepeau's already crucial book even more vital to those
of us interested in the history of America’s most popular and
problematic sports organization." --Travis Vogan, author of ESPN:
The Making of a Sports Media Empire
Praise for the previous edition of NFL Football:
“[Crepeau] has brought together from a great many sources the
information necessary to anyone who wants to understand the origins
and the workings of the powerful and profitable entertainment
vehicle the NFL has become.”
--Bill Littlefield, NPR’s Only a Game
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