Author : Chris Baker
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,62 MB
Release : 2016-01-09
Category : Soccer
ISBN : 9781910566107
Every Sunday a small army of amateur footballers descend on Hackney Marshes. Known as the 'spiritual home of amateur football', the marshes consist of some 80 pitches where more than 50 matches are played each week from September until April. Photographer Chris Baker, an amateur footballer himself, has spent the past three seasons documenting this Sunday ritual.
Author : NBC
Publisher : Liberty Street
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,16 MB
Release : 2008-09-02
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781603207973
Don't miss out on the must-have cookbook for 2008! In partnership with NBC Sports, The Sunday Night Football Cookbook marries two great American institutions food and football. With more than 150 delicious recipes from America's top chefs, NFL players and alumni, and NBC Sports all-star on-air team, the book is an easy-to-use playbook for making the ultimate fooball meal. Team by team, The Sunday Night Football Cookbook celebrates the special dishes, unique flavours, and most famous chefs of the NFL's 31 cities (plus the Pro Bowl's Honolulu).
Author : Craig Harline
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 18,11 MB
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0300167032
Originally published: New York: Doubleday, a division of Random House, 2007.
Author : Phil Simms
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 43,4 MB
Release : 2004-10-26
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0060734272
An in-depth and surprising look at the game, Sunday Morning Quarterback will dramatically change the way you watch football. You've heard all the football clichés: "Their offense is too predictable," or "They've got to win the turnover battle," or "They didn't make any halftime adjustments." Perhaps you've heard them so often that you've come to see them as obvious truths. Phil Simms, after an illustrious career as a Super Bowl-winning quarterback and a broadcaster, is here to tell you that these—and many other blanket statements taken as gospel—are all myths, and whoever says them has no idea of what they're talking about. Drilling deep into the core of football, Simms also shows the hidden signs that players look for that can determine the outcome of a game. Whether it's discovering how a linebacker positions his feet before he blitzes or how to react if the safety is eight or nine yards from the line of scrimmage, knowing these "dirty little secrets" gives players and their coaches a tremendous advantage. In addition, Simms shares his insights into the enormous challenges coaches face in today's game, evaluating the top coaches and what makes them successful. He takes a look at some of the greatest players he's played with and against, and what he misses most about the game—waking up Monday mornings feeling beat up and sore. He looks at the next generation of football players—his son, Tampa Bay's Chris Simms, among them. Through it all, Simms shares stories from his playing days with Bill Parcells and the New York Giants, and the inside access he's had as an announcer for one of the top NFL broadcasting teams in football. Fun and lively, Sunday Morning Quarterback should be required reading for anyone who loves football.
Author : Karen Kingsbury
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,12 MB
Release : 2008-09-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0310296013
Aaron Hill has it all—athletic good looks and the many privileges of a star quarterback. His Sundays are spent playing NFL football in front of a televised audience of millions. But Aaron’s about to receive an unexpected handoff, one that will give him a whole new view of his self-centered life.Derrick Anderson is a family man who volunteers his time with foster kids while sustaining a long career as a pro football player. But now he’s looking for a miracle. He must act as team mentor while still striving for the one thing that matters most this season—keeping a promise he made years ago.Megan Gunn works two jobs and spends her spare time helping at the youth center. Much of what she does, she does for the one boy for whom she is everything—a foster child whose dying mother left him in Megan’s care. Now she wants to adopt him, but one obstacle stands in the way. Her foster son, Cory, is convinced that 49ers quarterback Aaron Hill is his father.Two men and the game they love. A woman with a heart for the lonely and lost, and a boy who believes the impossible. Thrown together in a season of self-discovery, they’re about to learn lessons in character and grace, love and sacrifice.Because in the end life isn’t defined by what takes place on the first day of the week, but how we live it between Sundays.
Author : Daryl Banner
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 39,69 MB
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Gay men
ISBN : 9781542864725
Tanner, the hunky college football star, is home for the summer. Billy, the budding dessert chef, is about to have his hot-fudge-glazed world flipped upside-down. Get ready for the "sweetest" romance you've ever tasted. Contains: hot man-on-man action, a whole lotta southern small town sass, and ice cream. This is a sweet and steamy male/male romance with humor, an HEA, and NO cheating. It is set in Spruce, Texas - the same fictional small town as "Born Again Sinner".
Author : Andrew Ward
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 40,78 MB
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781408801260
A rich portrait of English Football from the end of the Second World War to the present.
Author : Phil Maciak
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 11,81 MB
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231187084
Phillip Maciak examines filmic depictions of Jesus to argue that cinema developed as a model technology of secularism, training viewers for belief in a secular age. Cinematic depictions of an appearing and disappearing Christ became a powerful vehicle for Americans to navigate a rapidly modernizing society.
Author : Jimmy Johnson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,12 MB
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1668008637
FOX NFL Sunday analyst and legendary Hall of Fame head football coach Jimmy Johnson—the first to win both a college football championship and a Super Bowl—shares his long-awaited, intimate, no-regrets memoir recounting his extraordinary life and insightful lessons on winning, at every level. Hall of Fame football coach Jimmy Johnson’s house isn’t on the way to anything. Yet, his private sanctuary on the Florida Keys’ Islamorada islands is a popular destination to which college and professional coaches, general managers, and team owners regularly trek to seek advice—how to build a positive team culture, draft elite players, balance work and family life, and lead a team to win. Why? Because Jimmy Johnson has done it all—rising through the college coaching ranks to lead the University of Miami Hurricanes to a national championship, winning two consecutive Super Bowls with the Dallas Cowboys, and handling public triumphs while dealing with private adversity. Now, written with veteran sports journalist Dave Hyde, Johnson shares a candid account of his life experiences that have turned him into a legend in the coaching world. From his early days on the college football fields at Louisiana Tech to his arrival as the Cowboys’ coach in 1989, Swagger traces the history of Johnson’s career, and his lifelong mission to win. His larger-than-life personality and hard-driving, tough-talking coaching style led him to become one of only six coaches in NFL history to win back-to-back Super Bowls. Swagger shows the behind-the-scenes details of his professional conflict with Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and his personal revelations following his mother’s death and his son’s struggle with addiction. It reveals Johnson’s formula for winning, including his criteria for identifying talent, his core beliefs, how he replaced legendary coaches like Tom Landry and Don Shula, coached stars from a young Troy Aikman to an aging Dan Marino, and established the ever-elusive sense of “culture” that every team leader hopes to achieve. More than a highlight reel, Swagger reveals the hard-won lessons Jimmy Johnson has learned both as a man and as a coach through a lifetime dedicated to excellence.
Author : Sal Paolantonio
Publisher : Triumph Books
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 20,33 MB
Release : 2015-09
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1633192911
ESPN's Sal Paolantonio explores just how crucial football is to understanding the American psyche Using some of the most prominent voices in pro sports and cultural and media criticism, "How Football Explains America" is a fascinating, first-of-its-kind journey through the making of America's most complex, intriguing, and popular game. It tackles varying American themes--from Manifest Destiny to "fourth and one"--as it answers the age-old question Why does America love football so much? An unabashedly celebratory explanation of America's love affair with the game and the men who make it possible, this work sheds light on how the pioneers and cowboys helped create a game that resembled their march across the continent. It explores why rugby and soccer don't excite the American male like football does and how the game's rules are continually changing to enhance the dramatic action and create a better narrative. It also investigates the eternal appeal of the heroic quarterback position, the sport's rich military lineage, and how the burgeoning medium of television identified and exploited the NFL's great characters. It is a must read for anyone interested in more fully understanding not only the game but also the nation in which it thrives. Updated throughout and with a new introduction, this edition brings "How Football Explains America" to paperback for the first time.
