The Last Headbangers - Kevin Cook

The Last Headbangers

NFL Football in the Rowdy, Reckless '70s: the Era that Created Modern Sports

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
304 Seiten
2013
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-0-393-34587-2 (ISBN)
16,95 inkl. MwSt
The inside story of the most colorful decade in NFL history—pro football’s raging, hormonal, hairy, druggy, immortal adolescence.
Between the Immaculate Reception in 1972 and The Catch in 1982, pro football grew up. In 1972, Steelers star Franco Harris hitchhiked to practice. NFL teams roomed in skanky motels. They played on guts, painkillers, legal steroids, fury, and camaraderie. A decade later, Joe Montana’s gleamingly efficient 49ers ushered in a new era: the corporate, scripted, multibillion-dollar NFL we watch today. Kevin Cook’s rollicking chronicle of this pivotal decade draws on interviews with legendary players—Harris, Montana, Terry Bradshaw, Roger Staubach, Ken “Snake” Stabler—to re-create their heroics and off-field carousing. He shows coaches John Madden and Bill Walsh outsmarting rivals as Monday Night Football redefined sports’ place in American life. Celebrating the game while lamenting the physical toll it took on football’s greatest generation, Cook diagrams the NFL’s transformation from second-tier sport into national obsession.

A former senior editor at Sports Illustrated, Kevin Cook is the author of Titanic Thompson, Tommy's Honor, Kitty Genovese and The Dad Report. He lives in New York City.

Zusatzinfo 8 pages of photographs
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 142 x 211 mm
Gewicht 248 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
Sport Ballsport Fußball
Weitere Fachgebiete Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-393-34587-4 / 0393345874
ISBN-13 978-0-393-34587-2 / 9780393345872
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