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NFL Football: A History of America's New National Pastime

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NFL Football: A History of America's New National Pastime

By: Richard C. Crepeau
Narrated by: Marlin May
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This wide-ranging history synthesizes scholarship and media sources to give the listener an inside view of the television contracts, labor issues, and other off-the-field forces that shaped the National Football League. Historian Richard Crepeau shows how Commissioner Pete Rozelle's steady leadership guided the league's explosive growth during the era of Monday Night Football and the Super Bowl's transformation into a mid-winter spectacle. Crepeau also delves into the league's masterful exploitation of media from radio to the Internet, its ability to get taxpayers to subsidize team stadiums, and its success in delivering an outlet for experiencing vicarious violence to a public uneasy over the changing rules of masculinity.

Probing and learned, NFL Football tells an epic American success story peopled by larger-than-life figures and driven by ambition, money, sweat, and dizzying social and technological changes.

The book is published by University of Illinois Press.

©2014 the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (P)2016 Redwood Audiobooks Americas Football (American) Social Sciences Sports History United States
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Critic reviews

"A solid resource for researchers and historians." ( Library Journal)
"A readable, engaging narrative history. Recommended." ( Choice)
"No understanding of the history of the NFL and its societal impact is complete without reading this book." (John A. Fortunato, author of Commissioner: The Legacy of Pete Rozelle)
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Very detailed story of the NFL. Some humour to break up the facts, a good book but not the easiest cover to cover because of the detail.

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