The NFL, Year One: The 1970 Season and the Dawn of Modern Football

ISBN-10: 161234965X
ISBN-13: 9781612349657
Pages: 276
Language: English
Published: 2022-08-04
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Author: Brad Schultz

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3 “Team Turnarounds,” NFL Top 10, NFL Films, April 29, 2008. 4 Frank Gifford and Peter Richmond, The Glory Game: How the 1958 NFL Championship Changed Football Forever (New York: Harper Books, 2008), 6. 5 Jimmy Breslin, “It's Metsomania ...

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