From Sandlots to the Super Bowl: The National Football League,

From Sandlots to the Super Bowl: The National Football League, 1920-1967 (Sports & Popular Culture)
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The National Football League that celebrated its first Super Bowl in 1967 bore scant resemblance to the league of its obscure origins. In its earliest years, the league was a ragtag collection of locally supported small-town teams that generated attention only in the locales in which they played, if they were lucky. Many teams received no support at all. Only after enduring a slow, often treacherous, journey did the enterprise of professional football reach its position as the king of the sports world by the late 1960s.In From Sandlots to the Super Bowl, Craig R. Coenen recounts the NFLâ€™s ascension from a cash-strapped laughingstock to a perennial autumn obsession for millions of sports fans. It offers an in-depth summary of the NFLâ€™s early years and its struggles to build an identity. This book shows how the fledgling NFL of the 1920s and 1930s attempted to build support both on a local and national scale. Considered a sport of hooligans and lower-class athletes, professional football paled in comparison to the reputations of competing sports such as college football and professional baseball. Even more difficult for the league, developing civic support for franchises proved an almost impossible task. Teams would spring up and disappear overnight, generating hardly any notice among sports fans.Coenen shows how the leagueâ€™s survival depended on small town franchises being able to tap into the civic pride and larger economic interests of nearby, growing urban centers. This book also details how the league faced challenges from rival leagues, the government, and at times, itself. Finally, it documents how the NFL mastered the use of new technologies like television to market itself, generate new revenue, and secure its financial future.This book approaches the history of the National Football League not only with stats and scores but with what happened beyond the gridiron. Starting in Canton and Massillon and ending in Los Angeles with Super Bowl I, From Sandlots to the Super Bowl offers an entertaining and absorbing look at the first five decades of Americaâ€™s most popular professional sport.
Country USA
Brand Univ Tennessee Press
Manufacturer Univ Tennessee Press
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber new-Nov09usbook-2017-c028305
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781572334472
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Univ Tennessee Press
Manufacturer	Univ Tennessee Press
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	new-Nov09usbook-2017-c028305
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781572334472
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

From Sandlots to the Super Bowl: The National Football League, 1920-1967 (Sports & Popular Culture)

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