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Author : Brian Howell
Publisher : 12-Story Library
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1621435482
Football is so popular that Super Bowl Sunday is almost a national holiday. With engaging text and colorful photos, this book celebrates everything fans love about the sport, from the NFL to college football to youth leagues.
Author : Drew Silverman
Publisher : 12-Story Library
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Football
ISBN : 1632351978
Highlights 12 aspects of the Super Bowl that make it a must-watch event each year. Each spread contains fascinating facts and stats to explain the importance of each subject.
Author : Brian Trusdell
Publisher : 12-Story Library
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1632354306
Pel. Lionel Messi. Abby Wambach. Soccers biggest names are known worldwide. With engaging text and colorful photos, this book explores everything about this international sport, including its ancient origins and its passionate fans.
Author : Brian Howell
Publisher : 12-Story Library
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1632354276
Football is so popular that Super Bowl Sunday is almost a national holiday. With engaging text and colorful photos, this book celebrates everything fans love about the sport, from the NFL to college football to youth leagues.
Author : Mark Edmundson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-04
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781101635728
Acclaimed essayist Mark Edmundson reflects on his own rite of passage as a high school football player to get to larger truths about the ways America's Game shapes its men Football teaches young men self-discipline and teamwork. But football celebrates violence. Football is a showcase for athletic beauty and physical excellence. But football damages young bodies and minds, sometimes permanently. Football inspires confidence and direction. But football instills cockiness, a false sense of superiority. The athlete is a noble figure with a proud lineage. The jock is America at its worst. When Mark Edmundson’s son began to play organized football, and proved to be very good at it, Edmundson had to come to terms with just what he thought about the game. Doing so took him back to his own childhood, when as a shy, soft boy growing up in a blue-collar Boston suburb in the sixties, he went out for the high school football team. Why Football Matters is the story of what happened to Edmundson when he tried to make himself into a football player. What does it mean to be a football player? At first Edmundson was hapless on the field. He was an inept player and a bad teammate. But over time, he got over his fears and he got tougher. He learned to be a better player and came to feel a part of the team, during games but also on all sorts of escapades, not all of them savory. By playing football, Edmundson became what he and his father hoped he’d be, a tougher, stronger young man, better prepared for life. But is football-instilled toughness always a good thing? Do the character, courage, and loyalty football instills have a dark side? Football, Edmundson found, can be full of bounties. But it can also lead you into brutality and thoughtlessness. So how do you get what’s best from the game and leave the worst behind? Why Football Matters is moving, funny, vivid, and filled with the authentic anxiety and exhilaration of youth. Edmundson doesn’t regret playing football for a minute, and cherishes the experience. His triumph is to be able to see it in full, as something to celebrate, but also something to handle with care. For anyone who has ever played on a football team, is the parent of a player, or simply is reflective about its outsized influence on America, Why Football Matters is both a mirror and a lamp.
Author : David Simonelli
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739170519
In Working Class Heroes, David Simonelli explores the influence of rock and roll on British society in the 1960s and '70s. At a time when social distinctions were becoming harder to measure, rock musicians appeared to embody the mythical qualities of the idealized working class by perpetuating the image of rebellious, irreverent, and authentic musicians.
Author : Steven Dawson
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781839781834
Offering a painfully honest insight into the male psyche, 'The 12th Man' is a fascinating account of how there can be far more to a die-hard football fan than meets the eye. Most fans don't choose their football club. In fact, the majority of them don't even choose football itself. Becoming a Leeds United fan was a rite of passage for Steven Dawson, and even had he known the scale of the drama that would unfold after he became a fan, he would never have supported another club.
Author : Emory Hunt
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780990551225
Over 100 interviews from current/former coaches, players, personnel execs, analyst and entertainers on their love for the game of football
Author : Russ Crawford
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496233820
Tackle football has been primarily viewed as a male sport, but at a time when men’s participation rates are decreasing, an increasing number of women are entering the gridiron—and they have a long history of doing so. Women’s American Football is a narrative history of girls and women participating in American football in the United States since the 1920s, when a women’s team played at halftime during an early NFL game. The women’s game became more organized in 1974, when the National Women’s Football League was established, with notable teams such as the Dallas Bluebonnets, Toledo Troopers, Oklahoma City Dolls, and Detroit Demons. Today there are two main professional leagues in the United States: the Women’s Football Alliance, with nearly seventy teams, and the Women’s National Football Conference, with eighteen, in addition to a number of smaller leagues. The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics and the NFL have recently begun sponsoring flag football teams at the college level, and the game is growing for high school girls as well. In 2021 more than two thousand girls played on mostly boys’ teams, and there are currently four all-girls leagues in the United States and Canada, in Manitoba, Utah, Indiana, and New Brunswick. In addition to the rapid growth of women playing football, there have been advancements in other areas of the game. Beginning with Jennifer Welter in 2015, several women have earned positions coaching the professional game. In 2020 ESPN aired Born to Play, a documentary on the Boston Renegades, the 2019 champion of the Women’s Football Alliance. Based on extensive interviews with women players and focusing closely on leagues, teams, and athletes since the passage of Title IX in 1972, Russ Crawford illuminates the rich history of the women who have played football, breaking barriers on and off the field.
Author : Diane Roberts
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062342645
One overeducated Florida State fan confronts the religiously perverted, racially suspect, and sexually fraught nature of the sport she hates to love: college football. Diane Roberts is a self-described feminist with a PhD from Oxford. She's also a second-generation season ticket holder—and an English professor—at one of the elite college football schools in the country. It's not as if she approves of the violence and hypermasculinity on display; she just can't help herself. So every Saturday from September through December she surrenders to her Inner Barbarian. The same goes for the rest of her "tribe," those thousands of hooting, hollering, beer-swilling Seminoles who, like Roberts, spent the 2013–14 season basking in the loping, history-making Hail Marys of Jameis Winston, the team's Heisman-winning quarterback, when they weren't gawking, dumbstruck, at the headlines in which he was accused of sexual assault. In Tribal, Roberts explores college football's grip on the country at the very moment when gender roles are blurring, social institutions are in flux, and the question of who is—and is not—an American is frequently challenged. For die-hard fans, the sport is a comfortable retreat into tradition, proof of our national virility, and a reflection of an America without troubling ambiguities. Yet, Roberts argues, it is also a representation of the buried heart of this country: a game and a culture built upon the dark past of the South, secrets so obvious they hide in plain sight. With her droll Southern voice and a phrase-turning style reminiscent of Roy Blount Jr. and Sarah Vowell, Roberts offers a sociological unpacking of the sport's dubious history that is at once affectionate and cautionary.
Author : The Editors Of Sports Illustrated Kids
Publisher : Time Inc. Books
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781683306252
So you've become a football fan and now you want to take your passion for the game to the next level? Then The Ultimate Football Fan Handbook is just what you need. Filled with fun facts to dazzle your friends, important numbers and milestones, the unique lingo of the game, the strategies that teams employ, and much, much more, this book will have its readers sounding like experts and dazzling their friends with their knowledge.
Author : Hanya Pielichaty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000412208
This book presents a cross-disciplinary examination of the lived experiences of girls and women football players using theoretical insights from sports studies, psychology, sociology and gender studies. It examines the concept of ‘the football self’ – your own, personal football identity that encapsulates the importance of football to our everyday lives – and what that can tell us about the complex relationships between sport, family, gender and identity. The book draws on in-depth ethnographic research involving players and family members, and offers important new insights into the everyday experiences of those girls and women who play. It breaks new ground in focusing on the significant relationships between player and family with a particular focus on parenting through football. The book brings to the fore key debates around gender identity, barriers to participation, cultural gaps and discrimination. The author also brings a personal perspective to bear, drawing on experience gained over 20 years as a player, adding an extra critical layer to her important empirical research. This is essential reading for all researchers and students with an interest in football, sport studies or issues around gender, inclusion or the family in sport, and fascinating reading for anybody generally curious about football.
Author : Allan Morey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Football
ISBN : 162031178X
Let's play football! Through large, full-color action photographs and simple text, Football introduces beginning readers to the basic rules of the game and encourages them to try playing. A labeled diagram helps readers identify the different areas on a football field, and a picture glossary reinforces new vocabulary. Football also features reading tips for teachers and parents, a table of contents, and an index. Football is part of Jump!'s I Love Sports series.
Author : Peter Kennedy,Christos Kassimeris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781317602149
European National football came together in the summer of 2012 for the 14th occasion. This book sets out to examine the enduring social tensions between supporters and authorities, as well as those between local, national and European identities, which formed the backdrop to the 14th staging of the European National football tournament, Euro2012. The context of the tournament was somewhat unique from those staged in previous years, being jointly hosted for the first time by two post-Communist nations still in the process of social and economic transition. In this respect, the decision to stage Euro 2012 in Poland and Ukraine bore its own material and symbolic legacies shaping the tournament: the unsettling of neo-liberal imaginings and emergent ‘East-West’ fears about poor infrastructure, inefficiencies and corruption jostled with moral panics about racism and fears surrounding the potentially unfulfilled consumerist expectations of west European supporters. The book seeks to explore the ideologies and practices invoked by competing national sentiments and examine the social tensions, ambiguities and social capital generating potentials surrounding national, ethnic, European identity, with respect to national football teams, supporters and supporter movements. This book was published as a special issue of Soccer and Society.
Author : Steve Almond
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781612194165
A New York Times Best Seller “Powerful...an important read." —Publishers Weekly New York Times bestselling author Steve Almond takes on America’s biggest sacred cow: football In Against Football, Steve Almond details why, after forty years as a fan, he can no longer watch the game he still loves. Using a synthesis of memoir, reportage, and cultural critique, Almond asks a series of provocative questions: • Does our addiction to football foster a tolerance for violence, greed, racism, and homophobia? • What does it mean that our society has transmuted the intuitive physical joys of childhood—run, leap, throw, tackle—into a billion-dollar industry? • How did a sport that causes brain damage become such an important emblem for our institutions of higher learning? There has never been a book that exposes the dark underside of America’s favorite game with such searing candor.