Football may be sport, but the National Football League is at heart a business--how else to account for the stratospheric salaries of the players and coaches? Y

The National Football League (NFL) is the most influential, popular, and prosperous professional sports league in America. As such this book focuses on the deve

Mark Bernstein shows that much of the culture that surrounds American football, both good and bad, has its roots in the Ivy League. With their long winning stre

"...provides a detailed look at America's pastime through the lens of pop culture, [an] A-to-Z inventory of how certain aspects of the game affect and reflect b

These essays provide a critical investigation of football cultures, examining local and national impacts of the game's new millennial order over five continents