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NFL football : a history of America's new national pastime /

"This wide-ranging history synthesizes scholarship and media sources to give the reader an inside view of the television contracts, labor issues, and other off-the-field forces that shaped the National Football League. Historian Richard C. Crepeau shows how Commissioner Pete Rozelle's stea...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Crepeau, Richard C., 1941- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2020]
Edition:NFL Centennial edition.
Series:Sport and society.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • I: The formative years
  • The first pros
  • Depression and war
  • The NFL comes to age
  • II: The Rozelle era
  • Moving to center stage
  • A troubled decade
  • The perfect TV game
  • The cartel
  • Unraveling
  • Labor conflict
  • III: The new NFL
  • A new era
  • New challenges
  • The money tree
  • Super Sunday
  • Postscript. <br>