tailieunhanh - PIGSKIN The Early Years of Pro Football

Ti! Ihis book is about professional football long before Super Bowls, Monday Night Football, and megabuck contracts for players. It tells what the game was like and what players and fans thought about it, beginning more than 100 years ago, when the first pros appeared, and continuing up to the time when televised football was becoming a national passion. The tipping point was the National Football League's 1958 championship game, when a crewcut quarterback named Johnny Unitas engineered a thrilling victory for the Baltimore Colts over the New York Giants in the first sudden-death overtime in a title game. An estimated 30 million television viewers saw that game, a harbinger of.