Any Given Sunday: The NFL's Epic 100-Year History in 20 Games

by Matthew Sherry

Overview

An authoritative 100-year history of America's National Football League from its founding.

The NFL has become the most lucrative sports league in the world, yet it has not always been a roaring success story. It is a rocky road filled with detours and wrong turns; with heroes and villains; and, most importantly, with thousands of games. Any Given Sunday recounts twenty of the biggest of those, starting with the first contest ever played in 1920 and working through to key fixtures in the recent past. Each chapter is complemented by interviews with some of the game's true stars; first-hand accounts from games, including multiple Super Bowls; and, finally, full access to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Matthew Sherry, founder of Gridiron, the UK's only NFL magazine, takes readers from the boardroom to the field, into the locker-room and inside the journeys of legends, providing a full snapshot of the NFL's epic first century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474613675
Publisher:	Orion
Publication date:	09/17/2020
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
File size:	35 MB
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About the Author

Matthew Sherry is the founder and editor of Gridiron, the UK's only NFL magazine. Over the course of his journalistic career, Matthew has reported on a wide variety of major sporting events, including the Olympic Games, the Ashes, Premier League football and, of course, the NFL. He has covered every Super Bowl since the 48th edition between the Seattle Seahawks and Denver Broncos, and also travels around the United States each year interviewing some of American football's biggest names. Matthew lives in Hartlepool.

Table of Contents

Prologue vii

1 A Season of Firsts 1

2 Red 77 12

3 A Stinkin' Circus 27

4 Makings of Monsters 41

5 Brown's Browns 58

6 Johnny, U the Man 76

7 World Series of Football 93

8 'Run It, and Let's Get the Hell Outta Here' 114

9 'I Guarantee It' 132

10 Same Old Steelers 149

11 Perfection 180

12 America's Team v. American Dream 197

13 Bear Up 215

14 'Black Doug' 242

15 Seeds of Genius 265

16 The Return of America's Team 293

17 Broncos Buck the Trend 315

18 The Brady Bunch 343

19 Nineteen and … No 371

20 Peerless Patriots 399

Epilogue 421

Glossary 443

Bibliography 453

Acknowledgements 464

Index 465