"Former NFL general manager and three-time Super Bowl winner Michael Lombardi reveals what makes football organizations tick at the championship level. From personnel and practice to game-day decisions that win titles, Lombardi shares what he learned working with coaching legends Bill Walsh of the 49ers, Al Davis of the Raiders, and Bill Belichick of the Patriots, among others, during his three decades in football. Why do some NFL franchises dominate...

With the help of numerous interviews and humorous anecdotes, Billick, the former Super Bowl-winning leader and longtime coach of the Baltimore Ravens, details the workings of professional football, both on and off the field, as well as examining the difficulties of being a head coach.

"Blood, guts, and glory-veteran players reveal the NFL you never see on TV Behind every glittering NFL game on television is a world of happy pain for a hundred men. NFL Unplugged lets you see that world through the eyes of the pros who live and sweat in it. Here are the places the cameras don't go: the locker room where coaches' speeches can deflate or motivate, the huddle where fart jokes vie with playcalling, the training camp where locusts and...

The NFL draft features no action on the field. No passing, running, tackling, or kicking. Hey, there isn't even a field. Yet the draft has become more popular than many other sporting events, including the NBA and NHL playoff games, against which it goes head-to-head for viewers. In fact, the draft has spawned its own cottage industry in which names such as Gil Brandt, Mel Kiper Jr., and Mike Mayock have become as well known as any of the first-round...

"The National Football League in the 1970s represented a new epoch in professional football. This book examines each year of the NFL's pivotal decade in detail, covering great names, great rivalries and great games. The author explains key changes in both strategy and rules and how pro football developed into the near-religious American tradition we see today"--

From its founding in Canton, Ohio, in 1920, football has become America's most popular-- and lucrative-- professional sport. It survived a host of challenges-- the Great Depression and World War II, controversies and scandals, battles over labor rights and competition from rival leagues-- to produce American icons and an extraordinary and entertaining history. Horrigan provides a sweeping and lively history of the NFL, timed to coincide with the 100th...

"The National Football League was founded in 1920 as the American Football Association. At first is struggled in the shadow of baseball as a vaguely disreputable professional sport, and had trouble competing for athletes and fans. Through a series of mergers, moves between cities, and the advent of television, the NFL gradually grew into one of the nation's most successful professional sports, with cities competing for franchises, and networks competing...