American Football History

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    • How to Understand Football in Less Than an Hour
    • By: Jack Hicks
    • Narrated by: Jack Hicks
    • Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • Listen to How to Understand Football for Beginners once. Then watch a game on television. You will see that it's possible to understand football in less than an hour....

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    • Steel, Football, and an American Town
    • By: S. L. Price
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • A moving epic of football and industrial America, telling the story of Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, its now-shuttered steel mill, and its legendary high school football team....

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    • The Remarkable People and Incredible Stories behind America's Favorite Dishes
    • By: David Page
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • What is American cuisine? What national menu do we share? What dishes have we chosen, how did they become "American", and how are they likely to evolve from here? In Food Americana, David Page answers all these questions and more....

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    • American Genius and the Reinvention of Football
    • By: S. C. Gwynne
    • Narrated by: Santino Fontana
    • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 372 ratings
    • Hal Mumme spent 14 mostly losing seasons coaching football before inventing a potent passing offense strategy that would revolutionize the game....

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    • The NFL's Epic 100-Year History in 20 Games
    • By: Matthew Sherry
    • Narrated by: Jeff Harding
    • Length: 17 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • 17th September 2020 marks the centenary of the National Football League. It reaches that landmark as a behemoth, an all-encompassing conglomerate that is the most lucrative sports league in the world - and also the dominant pop culture entity in the United States....

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    • The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson
    • By: Jeff Pearlman
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson
    • Length: 22 hrs
    • Release date: 10-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 413 ratings
    • From the mid-1980s into the early 1990s, the greatest athlete of all time streaked across American sports and popular culture. Stadiums struggled to contain him. Clocks failed to capture his speed. His strength was legendary. His power unmatched....

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    • Sports Series, Book 1
    • By: The Athletic, Dan Kaufman
    • Narrated by: Jamie Lincoln Smith
    • Series: Sports Series, Book 1
    • Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • At The Athletic, home to the best newsroom in sports, this question would become a labor of love for dozens of the best football writers on the planet, including Mike Sando and Dan Pompei....

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    • The Ivy League Origins of an American Obsession
    • By: Mark F. Bernstein
    • Narrated by: Kyle Tait
    • Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 11-24-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • In this rich history, Bernstein shows that much of the culture that surrounds American football, both good and bad, has its roots in the Ivy League....

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    • Interesting Baseball, Basketball, American Football, and Olympic History Facts for Family Fun or Pub Trivia Night
    • By: Frank Geoffreys
    • Narrated by: Mike Steele
    • Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • This book has 106 questions of interesting trivia and fun facts on baseball, basketball, American football, and Olympic questions to keep you entertained....

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    • Founding Fathers, Hidden Histories & the Making of Soccer in America
    • By: Hal Phillips
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 17 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 05-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The Modern Creation Story American Soccer Didn't Know It Had By the late 1980s, U.S. soccer had solidified its reputation as a global laughingstock...

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    • Patrick Mahomes, the Kansas City Chiefs, and How a Once Swingin' Cow Town Chased the Ultimate Comeback
    • By: Mark Dent, Rustin Dodd
    • Narrated by: Kemet Coleman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 08-22-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Mark Dent and Rustin Dodd bring their deep connection to the city and football expertise to create a book about an entertaining subject—the rebirth of a city, a team’s triumph, and how Patrick Mahomes, and the team he led, were exactly what was needed to bring Kansas City back together again....

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    • Racism, Injustice, and How You Can Be a Changemaker
    • By: Emmanuel Acho
    • Narrated by: Landon Woodson
    • Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • Adapted from Emmanuel Acho's New York Times best seller Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man, comes an essential young listeners edition aimed at opening a dialogue about systemic racism with our youngest generation....

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    • The Team That Changed a Game, a People, a Nation
    • By: Sally Jenkins
    • Narrated by: Don Leslie
    • Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 125 ratings
    • If you'd guess that Yale or Harvard ruled the college gridiron in 1911 and 1912, you'd be wrong....

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    • The Black Quarterbacks Who Revolutionized Pro Football
    • By: John Eisenberg
    • Narrated by: Brad Sanders
    • Length: 14 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • An acclaimed sportswriter offers an inside look at the Black quarterbacks whose skill and grit transformed the NFL....

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    • Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism
    • By: Howard Bryant
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 201 ratings
    • Today, sports arenas have been transformed into staging grounds for American patriotism and the hero worship of law enforcement. As journalist Howard Bryant reveals, this has always been more complicated for black athletes....

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    • A True Story of Football, Incarceration, and Resistance in World War II America
    • By: Bradford Pearson
    • Narrated by: Feodor Chin
    • Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • In the spring of 1942, the United States government forced 120,000 Japanese Americans from their homes in California, Oregon, Washington, and Arizona and sent them to incarceration camps across the West....

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    • The Totally Late '80s and Early '90s Tale of the Team That Changed American Soccer Forever
    • By: Adam Elder
    • Narrated by: Tim Campbell
    • Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • In 1990, though no one knew it then, a fearless group of players changed the sport of soccer in the United States forever. Young, bronzed, and mulletted, they were America’s finest athletes in a sport that America loved to hate....

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    • By: Michael Huyghue
    • Narrated by: Michael Huyghue
    • Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Former collegiate star, sports agent, and NFL executive Michael Huyghue recounts his journey in professional sports and the challenges that remain for minorities to succeed as front office executives in the multibillion-dollar sports industry....

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    • The AFL, Black Players, and the Evolution of Modern Football
    • By: Charles Ross
    • Narrated by: Jim Woods
    • Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • In Mavericks, Money and Men, football historian Charles Ross chronicles the AFL's key events, including Buck Buchanan becoming the first overall draft pick in 1963....

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