From Sandlots to the Super Bowl: The National Football League, 1920-1967 by Coenen, Craig R.
From Sandlots to the Super Bowl: The National Football League, 1920-1967 by Coenen, Craig R.

From Sandlots to the Super Bowl: The National Football League, 1920-1967

The National Football League that celebrated its first Super Bowl in 1967 bore scant resemblance to the...
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Author: Craig R. Coenen
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Language: English
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From Sandlots to the Super Bowl: The National Football League, 1920-1967 by Coenen, Craig R.

From Sandlots to the Super Bowl: The National Football League, 1920-1967

$90.46
From Sandlots to the Super Bowl: The National Football League, 1920-1967 by Coenen, Craig R.

From Sandlots to the Super Bowl: The National Football League, 1920-1967

$90.46
Author: Craig R. Coenen
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
The National Football League that celebrated its first Super Bowl in 1967 bore scant resemblance to the league of its obscure origins. In its earliest years, the league was a ragtag collection of locally supported small-town teams that generated attention only in the locales in which they played, if they were lucky. Many teams received no support at all. Only after enduring a slow, often treacherous, journey did the enterprise of professional football reach its position as the king of the sports world by the late 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 offers an in-depth summary of the NFL's early years and its struggles to build an identity. This book shows how the fledgling NFL of the 1920s and 1930s attempted to build support both on a local and national scale. Considered a sport of hooligans and lower-class athletes, professional football paled in comparison to the reputations of competing sports such as college football and professional baseball. Even more difficult for the league, developing civic support for franchises proved an almost impossible task. Teams would spring up and disappear overnight, generating hardly any notice among sports fans.Coenen shows how the league's survival depended on small town franchises being able to tap into the civic pride and larger economic interests of nearby, growing urban centers. This book also details how the league faced challenges from rival leagues, the government, and at times, itself. Finally, it documents how the NFL mastered the use of new technologies like television to market itself, generate new revenue, and secure its financial future.This book approaches the history of the National Football League not only with stats and scores but with what happened beyond the gridiron. Starting in Canton and Massillon and ending in Los Angeles with Super Bowl I, From Sandlots to the Super Bowl offers an entertaining and absorbing look at the first five decades of America's most popular professional sport.

Author: Craig R. Coenen
Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
Published: 07/21/2023
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.83w x 0.87d
ISBN: 9781621908234

About the Author
Craig R. Coenen teaches history at Mercer County Community College in Trenton, New Jersey, where he is an assistant professor.
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