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  • Sanctioned Savagery

    A History of Violence in American Football

    by Michael Oriard ...
    American football was a violent sport from its beginning as a college game in the 1870s and 1880s, in part because learning how to deal with the pain and violence, to “take it,” made men out of college boys. Michael Oriard, former NFL linebacker and professor emeritus of English, shows us that this fundamental belief persisted for more than a century, until signs of chronic traumatic ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Reading Football

    How the Popular Press Created an American Spectacle

    by Michael Oriard ...
    Series series Cultural Studies of the United States
    Is football an athletic contest or a social event? Is it a game of skill, a test of manhood, or merely an organized brawl? Michael Oriard, a former professional player, asks these and other intriguing questions in Reading Football, the first contemporary book about football’s formative years.American football began in the 1870s as a game to be played, not watched. Within a brief ten years, it had ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The End of Autumn

    Reflections on My Life in Football

    by Michael Oriard ...
    Much of Michael Oriard's education took place outside the schoolroom of his native Spokane, Washington, during "slaughter practices" on high school football fields. He was taught to "punish" and "dominate," to rouse his school spirit with religion, and to "tough it" through injuries, even serious ones. At the age of eighteen he entered Notre Dame and walked onto the football team, where studying ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Brand NFL

    Making and Selling America's Favorite Sport

    by Michael Oriard ...
    Professional football today is an $8 billion sports entertainment industry — and the most popular spectator sport in America, with designs on expansion across the globe. In this astute field-level view of the National Football League since 1960, Michael Oriard looks closely at the development of the sport and at the image of the NFL and its unique place in American life. New to the paperback ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • King Football

    Sport and Spectacle in the Golden Age of Radio and Newsreels, Movies and Magazines, the Weekly and the Daily Press

    by Michael Oriard ...
    This landmark work explores the vibrant world of football from the 1920s through the 1950s, a period in which the game became deeply embedded in American life. Though millions experienced the thrills of college and professional football firsthand during these years, many more encountered the game through their daily newspapers or the weekly Saturday Evening Post, on radio broadcasts, and in the ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Bowled Over

    Big-Time College Football from the Sixties to the BCS Era

    by Michael Oriard ...
    In this compellingly argued and deeply personal book, respected sports historian Michael Oriard — who was himself a former second-team All-American at Notre Dame — explores a wide range of trends that have changed the face of big-time college football and transformed the role of the student-athlete.Oriard considers such issues as the politicization of football in the 1960s and the implications of ... Read more

    $18.99 USD