Authors: Richard Whittingham
ISBN-13: 9781572436695, ISBN-10: 1572436697
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Triumph Books (IL)
Date Published: September 2004
Edition: Reprint
Dating back to its inception in 1920, the National Football League was built on and by players who loved the game of football, who had incredible pride in the game they played, and whose intensity often accompanied them off the football field. Though the league and the game have undergone many changes in the past nine decades, much has also remained the same about the people who play it -- the heroes. In Sunday's Heroes: NFL Legends Talk About the Times of Their Lives, Richard Whittingham allows us to relive great moments in NFL history through the words and stories of the heroes who lived them. From Jim Thorpe to Jim Brown, Johnny Unitas to John Elway, Sunday's Heroes puts us in the huddle with the greatest players of all time, and shares some of the best football stories the NFL has to offer.
Foreword | xi | |
Author's Preface | xiii | |
Introduction | xv | |
Chapter 1 | Soft Helmets, Hard Heads | 1 |
Chapter 2 | Curious Insights | 24 |
Chapter 3 | Views from the Sidelines | 56 |
Chapter 4 | Mayhem, Violence, and Pain | 86 |
Chapter 5 | On the Wackier Side | 116 |
Chapter 6 | Personalities | 144 |
Chapter 7 | The Ultimate Game | 172 |
Afterword | 205 | |
Bibliography | 207 | |
Index | 209 |