Pro Football S Stars Of The Offense

Get to know all of the top offensive playmakers in the NFL! From the Minnesota Vikings’ sensational running back Adrian Peterson to the Indianapolis Colts’ sure-handed tight end Dallas Clark, Pro Football’s Stars of the Offense is your guide to the top current talent in the game! This title is jam-packed with large, full-color action photos, plus statistics and stories that are sure to fuel debates among young football fans about which athlete is the best of the best. A diagram and clear explanations of offensive positions show each player’s role in advancing the ball and scoring touchdowns.

Meet the fastest, strongest, and hardest-hitting tacklers in the NFL! From the Indianapolis Colts’ Dwight Freeney to the New Orleans Saints’ Darren Sharper, Pro Football’s Stars of the Defense covers them all. Jam-packed with statistics and the career highlights of the top current players in the NFL, this book is sure to fuel debates among young football fans about which athlete is the best of the best. Large, full-color action photos will grab each reader’s attention, and a diagram of a defensive formation clearly shows how all 11 defensive players contribute to the team effort.

Football's Stars of Summer reviews each year of this classic series, including the excitement of selecting the college players; the frequent battles between the two sides over game rules; and the All-Stars' grueling pre-game training camps in the heat of summer, that often produced plenty of surprises for everyone.

Beginning with 1960, this book contains complete rosters and statistics for every player and every year, including the 1994 season and Super Bowl XXIX in January, 1995. All the great stories are here--the legendary players and the dream teams.

Coaches at all levels of football want to run the high-production, low-risk "West Coast" offense, but most aren't sure how to teach it or use it in game situations. This book explains and shows how to run the offensive scheme of championship teams. A total of 244 diagrams, including a mini-playbook for attacking every type of defensive coverage, illustrate all the moves. Approx.

The 1960s were a tumultuous period in U.S. history and the sporting world was not immune to the decade's upturn of tradition. As war in Southeast Asia, civil unrest at home and political assassinations rocked the nation, professional football struggled to attract fans. While some players fought for civil rights and others fought overseas, the ideological divides behind the protests and riots in the streets spilled into the locker rooms, and athletes increasingly brought their political beliefs into the sports world. This history describes how a decade of social upheaval affected life on the gridiron, and the personalities and events that shaped the game. The debut of the Super Bowl, soon to become a fixture of American culture, marked a professional sport on the rise. Increasingly lucrative television contracts and innovations in the filming and broadcasting of games expanded pro football's audiences. An authoritarian old guard, best represented by the revered Vince Lombardi, began to give way as star players like Joe Namath commanded new levels of pay and power. And at last, all teams fielded African American players, belatedly beginning the correction of the sport's greatest wrong.

The 1972 Green Bay Packers were not expected to challenge for a playoff spot, or even to top their four victories from the season before. But the players were an eclectic group of over-achievers, 20 of whom were brand new to the team. Despite disheartening decisions by a questionable head coach, they gelled almost immediately and by season's end became the only Packers team throughout the 1970s to earn a division title. This book details how they succeeded beyond all expectations and tells one of the great stories in pro football history.