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"Amid a national backdrop of the call to pass the Equal Rights Amendment, the National Women's Football League was founded as something of a gimmick. However, the league's star team, the Toledo Troopers, emerged to challenge traditional gender roles and amass a win-loss record never before or since achieved in American football. The players were housewives, factory workers, hairdressers, former nuns, high school teachers, bartenders, mail carriers,...
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"This books is about the famous 1982 football game between Cal and Stanford"--
"The wildest finish ever to a college football game occurred when five laterals on the final kickoff ended with a sprint through the opposing team's marching band-prematurely in celebration on the field-for the winning touchdown. It was 21 seconds of action so unfathomable it has become known simply as The Play. Five Laterals and a Trombone captures the madcap story as...
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The National Football League (NFL) is the most popular sports league in the United States, and the Super Bowl is its grandest stage. The incredible runs, the gutsy defensive stands, and the game-winning touchdown throws are all here. Award-winning sports author Matt Doeden explores the history of the Super Bowl and covers the championship game's greatest moments, from Vince Lombardi leading the Green Bay Packers to victory in Super Bowl I to Tom Brady...
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Highlights the history of the Atlanta Falcons professional football team, outlines famous games and championships, and profiles prominent players in the team's history. Includes photographs, a timeline, a list of records, a glossary, an index, and resources for further reading.
10) Super Bowl
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This title will take reluctant readers down the road to the championship and through the history of the league. The first Super Bowl kicked off on January 15, 1967. The National Football League s Green Bay Packers defeated the American Football League s Kansas City Chiefs 35 10. Today, 32 teams battle through regular season in hopes of a chance at the Vince Lombardi Trophy.
11) Bootlegger's boy
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A riveting memoir by one of the most successful football coaches in America!
As head coach of the Oklahoma Sooners, Barry Switzer was the fourth most successful coach in NCAA history. Both praised and reviled by the media as the "outlaw" of college football, Switzer was characterized as the "greatest rogue, pirate, hustler, and con man" ever to command a football team. As head coach for the Dallas Cowboys, he led America' s team to victory in Superbowl...
12) Football
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This title introduces readers to some of the most exciting moments in football history, such as Tom Dempsey's amazing field goal, the University of California over Stanford in "the play," and Tom Brady's unbelievable comeback against the Atlanta Falcons in Super Bowl LI. Large, dynamic photos illustrate easy-to-read text, Xtreme Facts give additional information, and an Xtreme Challenge quiz shows what readers have learned.
16) The eleventh man
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Driven by the memory of a fallen teammate, TSU's 1941 starting lineup went down as legend in Montana football history, charging through the season undefeated. Two years later, the "Supreme Team" is caught up in World War II. Ten of them are scattered around the globe in the war's various lonely and dangerous theaters. The eleventh man, Ben Reinking, has been plucked from pilot training by a military propaganda machine hungry for heroes. He is to chronicle...
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Monte Burke profiles head coach of University of Alabama's football team, Nick Saban, perhaps the most enigmatic man in the sport. Unpredictable in his professional loyalties, uncompromising in his vision, and unyielding in his pursuit of perfection, the highest-paid coach in college football has changed the face of the game. His program-building skills have delivered packed stadiums, rabid fans, hundreds of millions of dollars, legions of detractors,...