Pass Receiving in Early Pro Football: A History to the 1960s

by Jerry Roberts

Big television contracts in the 1960s created the Super Bowl, as well as the 1970 merger of the National Football League with the pass-oriented American Football League. Since then, professional football has been America's most popular televised team sport, developing into a wide-open passing game by the 21st century. Handling the completion side of the aerial game, receivers are not often as celebrated as quarterbacks or coaches, even in the era...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 078649946X
• ISBN13: 9780786499465
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher