Football: The Players, The Records, The Super Bowl

In the beginning, football was two teams and a ball on whatever surface would have them. Author Ron Martirano has produced a play-by-play narrative of how the game evolved, from its roots in rugby and the first American match in 1869, over decades of rule changes and refinements, through the relocation, rise, and fall of teams and leagues as the modern game took shape. With Football: The Players, The Records, The Super Bowl you'll travel through the decades and generations of gridiron memories to today's big-business age of professional televised football. Along the way, you'll find: * Stats, facts, and championship records * Bios of the game's greatest stars * The origins of the Super Bowl * Profiles of every professional team-including the long-forgotten clubs of yesteryear * Excerpts from Walter Camp's classic American Football