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Real Football : Conversations on America's Game by Stephen Harlan Norwood is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Since the 1960s, professional football has been America's most popular sport. This book explores the culture of football from the inside-from the players' perspective-the game the fans never see. Conversations are with eight top athletes, men who played in the National Football League for at least ten years, and with another who coached football for forty-five years. The players analyze the mental, physical, and emotional experience of the game at the high school, college, and professional levels, and at nearly every gridiron position. The author chooses his subjects carefully and finds articulate interpreters of this hard-edged experience. The author and the players discuss in depth a wide range of topics, including masculinity, injury, and pain, big-time college recruiting, college athletes and academics, relations with fathers and coaches, encounters with Jim Crow and desegregation, and strikes and labor relations in the NFL. Yielding full pictures of their lives and careers, these athletes go on to explore aging and their adjustments to retirement.

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Author

Stephen Harlan Norwood

Publisher

University Press of Mississippi

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781617031144

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sports, Anthropology, Social Science