Last Headbangers NFL Football in the Rowdy, Reckless '70s - The Era That Created Modern Sports

Name: Last Headbangers NFL Football in the Rowdy, Reckless '70s - The Era That Created Modern Sports
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ISBN: 9780393080162

ISBN-10: 0393080161

ISBN-13: 9780393080162

Edition: 2012

Authors: Kevin Cook

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Between the Immaculate Reception in 1972 and The Catch in 1982, pro football grew up. In 1972, Steelers star Franco Harris hitchhiked to practice. NFL teams roomed in skanky motels. They played on guts, painkillers, legal steroids, fury, and camaraderie. A decade later, Joe Montana’s gleamingly efficient 49ers ushered in a new era: the corporate, scripted, multibillion-dollar NFL we watch today. Kevin Cook’s rollicking chronicle of this pivotal decade draws on interviews with legendary players—Harris, Montana, Terry Bradshaw, Roger Staubach, Ken Snake Stabler—to re-create their heroics and off-field carousing. He shows coaches John Madden and Bill Walsh outsmarting rivals as Monday Night…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/3/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.20" wide x 9.60" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English

Kevin Cook, the award-winning author of Kitty Genovese, Titanic Thompson and Tommy's Honor, has written for the New York Times, the Daily News, GQ, Men's Journal, Vogue, and many other publications, and has appeared on CNN and Fox TV. He lives in New York City.



Prologue: End over End



Hup



Dings, Dolphins, and the Back of God's Hand



Brad's Bad



Three for the Show



The Raider Goddamn Way



Sea of Hands



Men of Steel



Hail Marys



"Knock Their Dicks Off"



Trial and Error



The Sickest Man in America



Apocalypse Now



Sprint Option



After The Catch


Epilogue: The Last Late Hit


A Note on Sources


Acknowledgments


Select Bibliography


Index