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- ISBN 9780228105725
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 03 Nov 2025
- Publisher: Firefly Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: CA
- Product Form: Paperback
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Over its 105-year history, the NFL has built franchise empires, created icons, integrated itself into the fabric of American culture and captivated fans around the globe. At the core of the NFL are the stories of the iconic players and leaders who drove the NFL from a modest association struggling to define itself against the college game to the most exciting and profitable sports league in the world. Through snappy prose and historic photographs, NFL Moments catalogs the league's larger-than-life characters and their defining stories.
The book features these and many more moments:
- the founding of the NFL
- the stories of the Forgotten Four and the emergence of Black athletes
- Joe Namath's guarantee
- Franco Harris and the Immaculate Reception
- the unrivalled improvisational skills of Patrick Mahomes.
George Johnson has spent over four decades based in Alberta and Manitoba writing about a variety of sports for newspapers, magazines and websites -- covering the NHL, the CFL, seven Olympic Games, four World Cups and three Women's World Cups along the way.
Allan Maki is an award-winning sports writer who spent 22 years at Canada's national newspaper, the Globe and Mail. He has written for Time, Maclean's, FHM, USA Today and co-authored the book Football's Greatest Stars through three editions. He was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame's media section in 2006.
