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- NFL Football: A History of America's New National Pastime
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: University of Illinois Press
- Series: Sport and Society
summary
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 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.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- p. viii
- Introduction
- pp. ix-xii
- I The Formative Years
- 1. The First Pros
- pp. 3-19
- 2. Depression and War
- pp. 20-32
- 3. The NFL Comes of Age
- pp. 33-52
- II The Rozelle Era
- 4. Moving to Center Stage
- pp. 55-73
- 5. A Troubled Decade
- pp. 74-91
- 6. The Perfect Television Game
- pp. 92-111
- 7. The Cartel
- pp. 112-125
- 8. Unraveling
- pp. 126-134
- 9. Labor Conflict
- pp. 135-152
- III The New NFL
- 10. A New Era
- pp. 155-170
- 11. Defending the Shield
- pp. 171-190
- 12. Super Sunday
- pp. 191-208
- Postscript
- pp. 209-212
- Appendix: NFL Franchises
- pp. 213-218
- Bibliography
- pp. 237-244
Additional Information
ISBN
9780252096532
Related ISBN(s)
9780252032899
MARC Record
OCLC
886947481
Pages
272
Launched on MUSE
2014-08-21
Language
English
Open Access
No