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Tag Archives: NFL
Authors on Issues: The Political Football
in authors, Authors on Issues, Uncategorized
Tagged authors on issues, football, NFL, sports, super bowl
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In this latest installment in our Authors on Issues series, Thomas P. Oates, author of Football and Manliness: An Unauthorized Feminist Account of the NFL, writes about the political and cultural force of the NFL. The Political Football By Thomas … Continue reading
Throwbacklist Thursday: Ready for some football
in biography, sports history
Tagged baseball, Elliott J. Gorn, football, John M. Carroll, Michael Oriard, NFL, Red Grange, sports history, sports media, Warren Goldstein
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Tonight, the National Football League and the betting on same return to thrill America. Sure, you know the quarterback rating of all the miserable underperformers who have gone under center for your team since the Kennedy administration. Why not add some … Continue reading
NFL Films founder changed the way we see the game
in communication, film, media studies, sports history
Tagged Keepers of the Flame, NFL, NFL Films, Travis Vogan
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Without Ed Sabol, the Dallas Cowboys might not be known as “America’s Team” and those goofy sports bloopers would not be a staple of rainy weekends. More importantly, the way Americans remember and watch the NFL might be totally different. With imaginative … Continue reading
Best of Illinois: Very sporting
in biography, Chicago, forthcoming books, new books, sports history, Uncategorized
Tagged baseball, basketball, Before the Curse, Before the Ivy, Carson Cunningham, Chicago Cubs, college basketball, Cubs, football, history, John Matthew Smith, John Wooten, Laurent Pernot, NCAA, NFL, NFL Football, pro football, Randy Roberts, Richard C. Crepeau, Sons of Westwood, UCLA basketball
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Metrics used to refer to a baffling system of weights and measures that Americans refused to adopt. These days, however, sports fans quote a different kind of metrics that measure everything from K/BB ratio to Kobe’s plus-minus. We live in an age … Continue reading
NFL Films to the rescue
in media studies, sports history
Tagged Keepers of the Flame, NFL, NFL Films, Travis Vogan
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If you are a football fan and week one of the NFL season has given you an early letdown (we’re looking at you Chicago Bears fans), perhaps some warmly manufactured memories and the soothing tones of John Facenda can smooth over … Continue reading
Pigskin Primer, 2014
in backlist classics, communication, new books, sports history
Tagged football, Michael Oriard, NFL, Richard Crepeau, Travis Vogan
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The casual viewer might not ponder a university press and the manly art of football at the same time. Assuming a scholarly publisher covered sports at all, wouldn’t it devote its energy to obscure ball games played by ancient Mayans, or maybe … Continue reading
