Red Letters is the story of Liverpool FC's first title-winning season in thirty years, game by game, in real time, with hopes and expectations tested and altered as the season progresses-through insights from two avid Liverpool supporters.
It’s difficult to imagine today—when the Super Bowl has virtually become a national holiday and the National Football League is the country’s dominant sports entity—but pro football was once a ramshackle afterthought on the margins of the American sports landscape. In the span of a single generation in postwar America, the game charted an extraordinary rise in popularity, becoming a smartly managed, keenly marketed sports entertainment colossus whose action is ideally suited to television and whose sensibilities perfectly fit the modern age. America’s Game traces pro football’s grand transformation, from the World War II years, when the NFL was fighting for its very existence, to the turbulent 1980s and 1990s, when labor disputes and off-field scandals shook the game to its core, and up to the sport’s present-day preeminence. A thoroughly entertaining account of the entire universe of professional football, from locker room to boardroom, from playing field to press box, this is an essential book for any fan of America’s favorite sport.
A Super Bowl-winning former head coach provides an insider perspective on how off-field battles affect playtime competitions, sharing the additional insights of influential NFL figures to discuss how team building is negotiated and the economic pressures facing coaches and players.