NFL Century: The One-Hundred-Year Rise of America's Greatest Sports League

This is an enjoyable history of the NFL’s first hundred years. All of the major events and eras of the league’s great history are covered, from the league’s humble roots to the 1958 Championship (“The Greatest Game Ever Played”) through the first Super Bowls to the modern era.The book is an enjoyable read, but does not delve into great detail about any particular subject or era or the many fascinating personalities who helped changed the sport, such as George Halas, Paul Brown, Art Rooney, etc. The later chapters, covering the tenures, covering the eras of Pete Rozelle and Paul Tagliabue read like they were written by Rozelle and Tagliabue’s stenographers. All in all, a good book, but I thought John Eisenberg’s The League painted a more revealing picture of the NFL’s origins.

Great book on the history and memories of the first 100 years of the National Football League. The book captured most of the significant moments of this Sunday fall tradition. Only thing, I was hoping there was a chapter dedicated the the World Football League of the mid 1970's. Not much has been written about this league and it would have been interesting to read how all the player defections into the league affected the NFL as a whole. But that is minor thing. I highly recommend this book to any football fan. Here's to another 100 years! :)

This book was a bit dry. The author focuses on the business side of football -- namely, owners and managers. He left a lot of material a football fan would want to know about untouched. In particular, there was almost no mention of player safety and none what-so-ever of CTE. However, I learned plenty about the development of the NFL, and I was engaged throughout. A chart of the major figures in the NFL, especially during the very early days, would have been helpful because it was easy to lose track of who was who

Great book about the history of the NFL through the little known stories. Very cool 😎 and a must for any football fan

Great read! Football history from a different perspectives and clearly corrected a few myths. Joe Horrigan knows his football- 42 years of knowledge!

I was disappointed by this book. It had the potential to be so much better and it ended up being a regurgitation of information previously written about elsewhere. The most glaring thing were the blatant factual errors and mistakes on proper names. Influential Tampa Bay owner Hugh Culverhouse was "Culverson" more than once and a couple sportswriters names were wrong (Bill Lyon and Bill Plaschke were Lyons and Paschke). The worst one was in a Chapter discussing what the NFL did after 9-11 Art Modell was referred to as the owner of the Cleveland Browns. Too bad he had moved the Browns to Baltimore to become the Ravens some years earlier.I really wanted to like this book, but it seemed like it was thrown together in a rush and/or assembled by research interns using other source material who have no knowledge of the NFL and its history. Nothing original about this book. Disappointing.

Great book with lots of pictures of the history of the nfl

Turn to the index. You won’t find Bobby Layne listed. How do you write a history book of the NFL without even mentioning Bobby Layne? He is what a book like this should be about. The Detroit Lions still suffer from “the curse of Bobby Layne.” If you want to know what that is, well you won’t find it in this book.

Very good