An excerpt from Rozelle: A Biography (October 2014) by Jerry Izenberg. Chapter 5: How Do You Tell Vince? … This is a country where gambling has always been a fever in the national blood. I remember as far back as when I was … Continue reading EXCERPT: Rozelle
Steve Smith is an award-winning communications professional who lives in Lincoln, Nebraska. He is the author of Forever Red: More Confessions of a Cornhusker Fan (September 2015). Follow Steve on Twitter. It’s almost over. In less than a week, the University … Continue reading From the desk of Steve Smith: This Season
An excerpt from The Game before the Money: Voices of the Men Who Built the NFL (September 2014) by Jackson Michael. Join the conversation on Twitter using #GameBeforeMoney during the first week of NFL football on why you coach, play, or watch. Pro Football Hall of Fame member … Continue reading EXCERPT: The Game Before the Money
C. Richard King is Professor of Ethnic Studies at Washington State University at Pullman and the author and editor of several books, including Team Spirits: The Native American Mascot Controversy and Unsettling America: Indianness in the Contemporary World. His new book, Redskins: Insult and … Continue reading From the desk of C. Richard King: Hate Masked as Honor
Books Walk of Ages by Jim Reisler Review from the Sports Literature Association: “Jim Reisler, author of eight baseball books, which explains the many analogies the author makes to the boys of summer, brings this fascinating character to life on the pages of Walk of Ages. . . Reisler described Weston as an everyman, a rock star and a happening all rolled into one incredible human being.” Busy in the Cause by Lowell J. Soike From Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains Vol 38 No 1: “Soike’s portraits of the remarkable young men who followed Brown . . … Continue reading NEWS AND REVIEWS
Jackson Michael is a member of the Football Writers Association of America and the Maxwell Football Club. He is a freelance writer and journalist; visit his book website. My dad introduced me to watching football. We first watched Super Bowl XI … Continue reading From the desk of Jackson Michael: Father’s Day and Football
Jackson Michael is a member of the Football Writers Association of America and the Maxwell Football Club. He is a freelance writer and journalist. His book, The Game Before the Money:Voices of the Men Who Built the NFL, is now available. … Continue reading From the desk of Jackson Michael
Read the beginning of Chapter 2, "The Rules", from Football's Last Iron Men: 1934, Yale vs. Princeton, and One Stunning Upset by Norman L. Macht:
"In order to appreciate the events and achievements described in this narrative, it is essential to understand the rules of football then in effect. Like baseball, the sport has changed little enough for someone sitting in Palmer Stadium in November 1934 to awaken after a seventy-five-year nap and still understand what was going on in the latest Super Bowl. It has also changed so much that a twenty-first-century fan, whisked back in time to that day in Princeton, would wonder why they did the things they did the way they did them.
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