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David. “ 11 Minutes of Action.” T he Wall Street Journal. January 15, 2010. Accessed: November 15, 2013. Only two players have caught, rushed, and thrown a touchdown against the same team in the same game: Walter Payton in 1979 and David Patton in 2001. [16] The Baltimore Ravens are named after Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven" • The Baltimore Ravens are named after Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven.” The team mascots are named Edgar, Allan, and Poe. Poe wrote his famous poem while living in Baltimore in the 1830s. [2] From Jenkins: It's the most captivating and readable book on the list, and it chronicles the explosive popular growth of football in the '60s and '70s, with some charming history lessons thrown in.

My sometime colleagues from Nutmeg magazine have produced a beautiful, evocative, gritty love-letter to the Scottish game. Daniel’s poetic descriptions and Alan’s alluring photographs capture the attraction of football at all levels, but the book is especially affecting when they visit grounds where the players voices can be heard over the fans on the terracing.

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There are nearly 3 million sports industry jobs in the U.S, which is approximately 1% of the population. [7] Club Soccer 101: The Essential Guide to the Stars, Stats, and Stories of 101 of the Greatest Teams in the World – Luke Dempsey

The Miami Dolphins are the only NFL team in history to complete an undefeated playing season, in 1972. [6] Morbo was awarded the GQ Sports Book of the Year and is recommended if you want to read a book about the Spanish football history. The author Phil Ball is specialized on Spanish football and has also written an appreciated book on Real Madrids history. The last scoreless NFL game was in 1943 when the Detroit Lions and New York Giants battled it out for a 0-0 tie. [2]

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Said about it: “[Kuper and Szymanksi] do for soccer what Moneyball did for baseball-put the game under an analytical microscope using statistics, economics, psychology and intuition to try to transform a dogmatic sport.” – New York Times

The average game attendance for an NFL game is 66,957 spectators. For MLB, it’s 30,135 spectators. [7] We all know how closed football and Brazil are connected and reading Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Life enriches that truism to a deeper and more nuanced knowledge. An earlier work and analogues in choice of topic is Soccer Madness by Janet Lever from 1995. Said about it: "Must surely go down as one of the most revelatory sports books of the year, as well as one of the best." – The Scotsman From Jenkins: Gorgeously written, illuminates our fixation with the game through the life of its greatest obsessive, and it also explains ourselves to ourselves.

If you want theoretical insights and if you want to view the game from a non-conventional way this book by Simon Kuper (also the awarded author of Football Against the Enemy and The Football Men) and Stefan Szymanski is for you. In some aspects linked to Anderson and Sally in The Numbers Games, the authors of Soccernomics investigate the sport from new angles and come up with some surprising and astonishing results. The last part of the subtitle “Why the U.S., Japan, Australia-and Even Iraq-Are Destined to Become the Kings of the World’s Most Popular Sport” is, however a sell tactic since the statement is only covered by a short and speculative chapter. In the 1930s, NFL game telecasts were simply a constant feed of the field. Instant replay became commonplace in the mid-1960s, which helped fill the idle moments of the game. By the 1990s, some football broadcasts showed about 100 replays per game. [1] A cow has only a 1 in 17,420,000 chance of becoming an NFL football that is used in the Super Bowl. [12] The most famous NFL cheerleading squad is the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders. They were originally a male/female group called the CowBelles & Beaux. [4] In an NFL game, as many as 75 minutes, or about 60% of total TV air time (excluding commercials), is spent on shots of players standing on the line of scrimmage, huddling, or just walking around between snaps. [1]