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The inside account of the most colorful decade in NFL record - pro football's raging, hormonal, hairy, druggy, immortal adolescence. Between your Immaculate Reception in 1972 as well as the Capture in 1982, pro soccer grew up. In 1972, Steelers star Franco Harris hitchhiked to apply. NFL groups roomed in skanky motels. They performed on guts, painkillers, legal steroids, fury, and camaraderie. A decade later, Joe Montana's gleamingly effective 49ers ushered in a new era: the corporate, scripted, multibillion-dollar NFL we watch today. Kevin Cook's rollicking chronicle of this pivotal decade draws on interviews with renowned players - Harris, Montana, Terry Bradshaw, Roger Staubach, Ken "Snake" Stabler - to re-create their heroics and off-field carousing. He shows coaches John Madden and Expenses Walsh outsmarting rivals as Monday Evening Football redefined activities' devote American life. Celebrating the overall game while lamenting the physical toll it required on football's ideal generation, Make meals diagrams the NFL's change from second-tier sport into national obsession.
