Download From Sandlots to the Super Bowl: The National Football League, 1920-1967 (Sports & Popular Culture) AudioBook Free
The National Soccer League that famous its first Super Bowl in 1967 bore scant resemblance to the little league of its obscure origins. In its first years, the little league was a ragtag collection of locally reinforced small-town teams that made attention only in the locales where they played, if indeed they were blessed. Many teams received no support in any way. Only after long lasting a slow-moving, often treacherous, trip did the venture of professional sports reach its position as the king of the activities world by the overdue 1960s. In From Sandlots to the Super Bowl, Craig R. Coenen recounts the NFL's ascension from a cash-strapped laughingstock to a perennial autumn obsession for millions of sports fans. It provides an in-depth conclusion of the NFL's early years and its own struggles to develop an individuality. This e book shows how the fledgling NFL of the 1920s and 1930s attempted to build support both on a local and national size. Considered a sport of hooligans and lower-class runners, professional sports paled in comparison to the reputations of rivalling activities such as school sports and professional baseball. Even more complicated for the little league, expanding civic support for franchises turned out an almost impossible task. Clubs would spring up and disappear in a single day, generating hardly any notice among activities admirers. Coenen shows how the league's survival depended on small town franchises having the ability to utilize the civic pride and larger economical interests of local, growing metropolitan centers. This e book also details how the league faced issues from rival leagues, the federal government, and sometimes, itself. Finally, it documents how the NFL mastered the use of new solutions like television to advertise itself, generate new revenue, and secure its financial future. This e book approaches the annals of the National Football Little league not only with stats and scores but using what took place beyond the gridiron. Starting in Canton and Massillon and stopping in Los Angeles with Super Bowl I, From Sandlots to the Super Bowl provides an entertaining and absorbing go through the first five years of America's most popular professional sport.
