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The Last Headbangers. NFL Football in the Rowdy, Reckless '70s - The Era That Created Modern Sports.
Kevin Cook
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Description for The Last Headbangers. NFL Football in the Rowdy, Reckless '70s - The Era That Created Modern Sports.
Paperback. The inside story of the most colorful decade in NFL history pro football's raging, hormonal, hairy, druggy, immortal adolescence. Num Pages: 304 pages, 8 pages of photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPL; WSJS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 250.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393345872
SKU
V9780393345872
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About Kevin Cook
A former senior editor at Sports Illustrated, Kevin Cook is the author of Titanic Thompson, Tommy's Honor, Kitty Genovese and The Dad Report. He lives in New York City.
Reviews for The Last Headbangers. NFL Football in the Rowdy, Reckless '70s - The Era That Created Modern Sports.
"A head-slap of a book. Whap, yeah, that’s how it was."
Roy Blount, Jr., author of About Three Bricks Shy of a Load and Alphabet Juice "Wired, crazy, hard-hitting, a pure winner."
Jeff Pearlman, author of Boys Will Be Boys and Sweetness "About as subtle as a kick in the head."
Scott Simon, NPR "Featuring arguably the ... Read more
Roy Blount, Jr., author of About Three Bricks Shy of a Load and Alphabet Juice "Wired, crazy, hard-hitting, a pure winner."
Jeff Pearlman, author of Boys Will Be Boys and Sweetness "About as subtle as a kick in the head."
Scott Simon, NPR "Featuring arguably the ... Read more