Present at the creation : my life in the NFL and the rise of America's game /

"To understand how the NFL became the sports phenomenon it is today, you can study its history as an active participant. Upton Bell grew up at the knee of the NFL's first great commissioner, his father, the legendary Bert Bell, who not only saved the game from financial ruin after World Wa...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Bell, Upton (Author), Borges, Ron (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Bell, Upton.
Bell, Upton
Baltimore Colts (Football team)
National Football League > History.
National Football League
Football managers > Biography.
Sportscasters > Biography.
Sports administration.
Journalistes sportifs > Biographies.
Sports > Gestion.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Sports.
GAMES > Gambling > Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Business Aspects.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Essays.
SPORTS & RECREATION > History.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Reference.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Sports.
Football managers
Sports administration
Sportscasters
Autobiography
Biography
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
History
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • On any given Sunday
  • A long ride to Baltimore
  • Welcome to the Colts
  • The great ticket heist was my kickoff in Baltimore
  • A scout's life is for Kit Carson but not for everybody
  • The making of an NFL scout
  • Spy vs. spy settles NFL-AFL war
  • The South is burning!
  • Running my own show in Baltimore
  • Worst loss in the history of losses
  • Some things can't be fixed
  • Why did you ever come here?
  • Everybody's got to serve somebody
  • A new league, a second chance
  • No more fish in the sea
  • Scouting for QBs, the most important position in sports
  • Only one Moses wore a whistle
  • Out of the frying pan, into the fire
  • Epilogue.

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