American Football

In the United States, American football has more fans than any other sport. Why is the NFL so popular? Who are the players that have carried this s...

The Jerry Sandusky child molestation case stunned the nation. As subsequent revelations uncovered an athletic program operating free of oversight, ...

The Jerry Sandusky child molestation case stunned the nation. As subsequent revelations uncovered an athletic program operating free of oversight, ...

The 1966 Green Bay Packers were one of the greatest teams in professional football history. Led by legendary head coach Vince Lombardi and 10 futur...

When it came to football in the 1930s, the college sport was king. But in 1933, former boxer and minor league baseball player Art Rooney, who had q...

A tight, dramatic NFL playoff game is exciting on its own, but two of the most dramatic in the same afternoon might result in the most compellin...

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 th...

Bill Belichick started collecting Lombardi Trophies like some people collect coasters and won his fourth Super Bowl title in 2015. No other NFL tea...

To understand how the NFL became the sports phenomenon it is today, you can study its history or you can live its history as an active participant...

The Cleveland Browns set the standard by which all professional football teams were measured in the 1940s and 50s, but when they won the National F...

They are known as cupcake games--lower division teams get paid to travel to college football Meccas where the hosts make a nice profit from an e...

Big television contracts in the 1960s created the Super Bowl, as well as the 1970 merger of the National Football League with the pass-oriented ...

The quarterback sends his wide receiver deep. The crowd gasps as he launches the ball. And when he hits his man, the teams fans roar with approvale...

While the Super Bowl has become a worldwide cultural event, the annual league championship games had a long history even before the first Super ...

This is the first biography of Alan The Horse Ameche, one of Americas great gridiron heroes. Born in 1933 to Italian immigrants, he grew up in Keno...

The San Francisco 49ers are among the most dynamic franchises, not only in the National Football League but in all of professional sports. They hav...

From 1976 until 1994, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers lost far more games than they won. The Bucs' status as a sporting punch line belied the fact that...

How a team of vagabonds made a charge at football historyThe year 1963 percolated with dreamsbig dreams. Martin Luther King Jr. had one, and he art...

Fred Duke Slater was the greatest African American football player of the first half of the 20th century. Born into poverty, he developed into a...

The quarterback sends his wide receiver deep. The crowd gasps as he launches the ball. And when he hits his man, the team's fans roar with approval...

Coaching The Coach 2 follows the 2007 release of the number 1 best-selling football coaching book Coaching The Coach: A Complete Guide How to Coach...

Juventus are the most successful team using the 3-5-2 formation in modern football. Juve have won 4 consecutive Serie A league titles including an ...

In 2016 the Rams left St. Louis for Los Angeles--having departed L.A. for St. Louis in 1995--and caused much heartbreak among fans. NFL teams ar...