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As the leaves begin to turn and the crisp air of fall sets in, it's time to huddle up with a great book that celebrates the magic of football season. Whether you're looking to sharpen your fantasy football skills, dive into the lives of legendary coaches and players, or simply enjoy a good story about hardworking hometown teams, we've got you covered. This fall, tackle your reading list with these must-read football books that will keep you entertained from kickoff to the final whistle.
Fantasy football guides
So You've Been Asked to Play Fantasy Football: A Beginner's Guide to Drafting, Strategy, and Winning
by Eli L Price
Are you ready to step into the exciting world of fantasy football but feel overwhelmed by all the jargon and strategies? Fear not! So You've Been Asked to Play Fantasy Football is your ultimate guide to navigating your first season with confidence and skill.
This comprehensive guide is designed specifically for beginners, breaking down the complexities of fantasy football into easy-to-understand concepts. You'll learn everything from the basics of drafting players to the nuances of managing your team throughout the season. With clear explanations, practical tips, and strategic insights, you'll quickly go from a fantasy football rookie to a formidable competitor.
Inside This Book, You'll Discover:
- Draft Day Essentials: Learn how to prepare for draft day, select the best players, and build a balanced team that can compete all season long.
- Understanding the Scoring System: Get a grip on the different scoring formats and how they impact your strategy.
- Weekly Management Tips: Find out how to set your lineup, manage injuries, and make key decisions that can make or break your season.
- Trade and Waiver Wire Strategies: Master the art of trading and making savvy waiver wire pickups to strengthen your team.
- Playoff Preparation: Learn how to position your team for a deep playoff run and ultimately, a championship victory.
Fantasy Football Guide 2024
by Richard King
- 257 page book with:
- Player Profiles
- Offensive Line Rankings
- Coaching Impact
- Sleepers
- Busts
- Values
- Make your own projections workbook
- A take-it-with you draft aid updated right up to the start of the season (first complete draft available before July- partially available now)
Girlfriend's Guide to Fantasy Football
by Nikki Mathews
Ladies! Do you wish your man would obsess over you the way he does his weekly fantasy football lineup?
Yeah, you're not alone!
The world of fantasy football can be a confusing and sometimes baffling one, yet many women can clearly see how much it means to their partner.
They likely talk at length with their football buddies about tactics, players, and lineups with passion and charisma that you rarely see.
But there's one small problem: You have no idea what he's talking about.
Well, that ends today! Introducing The Girlfriend's Guide to Fantasy Football, the perfect guide to teach you to love the game just as much as he does.
Or, at the very least, understand the gibberish he is spouting!
This book will teach you everything you need to know about fantasy football, allowing you to communicate and connect with your partner and helping you understand why they care so much about their fantasy team.
Before you know it, you'll be giving him tips and advice on trades or teasing him about your team being ranked higher than his.
Inside The Girlfriend's Guide to Fantasy Football, you'll discover:
- Why it's important to understand your partner's hobbies.
- How to join the fantasy football community.
- The best strategies for newcomers.
- How to communicate effectively with your fantasy football-loving partner.
- Ways to view fantasy football as a form of entertainment.
Don't spend another minute out of the fantasy football loop.
Grab a copy of The Girlfriend's Guide to Fantasy Football today!
legendary players / Teams / Coaches
Kingdom Quarterback: Patrick Mahomes, the Kansas City Chiefs, and How a Once Swingin' Cow Town Chased the Ultimate Comeback
by Mark Dent - Rustin Dodd
Fresh off of a gutsy, thrilling 2023 Super Bowl win for the Kansas City Chiefs, two inspiring stories that fit perfectly together--a biography of superstar quarterback, Patrick Mahomes, who brought the Chiefs to their first Super Bowl win in fifty years in 2020 as well as a second in 2023, along with the historical struggles and recent resurgence of the former "Paris of the Plains," Kansas City.
There is nobody like Patrick Mahomes.
In three seasons, he has won a Super Bowl and competed in another, earned the titles of First Team All-Pro, NFL Offensive Player of the Year, and league MVP, and turned the Kansas City Chiefs from famed playoff failures into the most successful team in the NFL. With his unique and groundbreaking playing style, and winning personality both on and off the field, Mahomes has become a truly transcendent quarterback in a journey that mirrors and accentuates the rebirth of the once swingin' cow town of Kansas City, Missouri.
Once an adventure-filled jazz epicenter and nightlife hub to rival New Orleans, Kansas City's wild edges and captivating neighborhoods were snuffed out in pursuit of a suburbanized dream that largely left out people of color. It's been a long road attempting to move past the scars of segregation and overcome the city's flyover reputation, but Kansas City is now poised to make a comeback, and no other person or team embodies that hope like Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs. Kansas City and Mahomes represent the story of the midwestern American city--how they grew, how they shaped the country, how the sport of football came to mean so much to them, how they failed, and how they are changing.
Kansas City-area natives Mark Dent and Rustin Dodd have written for outlets such as The New York Times, The Kansas City Star, and Texas Monthly, bringing their deep connection to the city, football expertise, and polished writing skills to create a serious book about a very 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.
Out of the Darkness: The Mystery of Aaron Rodgers
by Ian O'Connor
"A masterwork. ... O'Connor answers every question, deftly and deeply, that we've had about the most controversial person in America's biggest game." --Peter King
Four-time New York Times bestselling sport biographer Ian O'Connor pulls back the curtain on four-time NFL MVP Aaron Rodgers, delivering the definitive portrait of the legendary yet mysterious quarterback who has astonished, befuddled, yet always captivated fans of America's #1 sport.
Aaron Rodgers is among the two or three most talented players to ever hold the most important job in American team sports - quarterback. He also stands as the most mysterious and polarizing figure in the modern-day national pastime that is professional football.
From his controversial Covid stance to his methods of spiritual awakening to his estrangement from his family to his high-profile romances to his devastating Achilles injury a mere four plays into his New York Jets career, Rodgers has long dominated the NFL's news cycle.
At thirty-nine, in search of a challenge that would rejuvenate him, Rodgers divorced the iconic Green Bay Packers of Vince Lombardi fame for the Jets, who have not appeared in a Super Bowl since Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon. The trade made Rodgers the biggest story in the biggest league in the biggest market. By far.
That story only got bigger when Rodgers shockingly went down on the night of 9/11, in front of a packed house that roared for him when he took the field carrying an American flag, and in front of the biggest Monday Night Football audience in ESPN history, peaking at more than 25 million viewers across all platforms. Rodgers then shocked the world by pulling off the fastest recorded comeback from an Achilles tear, returning to practice eleven weeks after surgery. Remarkably enough, he would have played again in the 2023 season, at age 40, had the Jets remained in playoff contention.
Ian O'Connor uses hundreds of original interviews to pull back the curtain and answer the most penetrating questions about the league's most enigmatic player. Just like he did in his defining bios of Bill Belichick, Mike Krzyzewski, Derek Jeter, Jack Nicklaus, and Arnold Palmer, O'Connor reveals all sides of an all-time great and delivers a portrait of a complex man that will forever shape the way he is viewed.
Men in White: The Gutsy, Against-All-Odds Return of Penn State Football
by Chris Raymond
A thrilling sports story, Men in White is the tale of the young athletes who defied the doomsayers and rescued Penn State's football program from the horrors of the Jerry Sandusky scandal--told by the players themselves.
On November 5, 2011, the news that Jerry Sandusky had been charged with forty counts of child molestation rocked Penn State's leafy campus, unseating the university president, the athletic director, and head coach Joe Paterno--devastating the football program he had erected and diligently maintained over half a century.
Men in White recounts the saga of the student athletes who elected to stay and rebuild the program in the face of crippling NCAA sanctions, blistering heat from the outraged media, and radio silence from the adults in the school's administration.
With the once proud program in free fall and their personal fortunes in peril, these young men refused to back down, toiling for five long seasons to rehabilitate the program and its ideals, culminating in the stirring come-from-behind defeat of Wisconsin in the Big Ten Championship Game. Their story echoes that of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team, a cast of young men--colossal underdogs--who boldly accepted the challenge of a lifetime, achieving success while shouldering the weight of a bruising political drama.
Why We Love Football: A History in 100 Moments
by Joe Posnanski
A moving celebration of the history of American football from the New York Times bestselling author of Why We Love Baseball
After his bestselling home run books Why We Love Baseball and The Baseball 100, Joe Posnanski turns from the national pastime to the number one sport in America. Why We Love Football is Posnanski's newest must-have deep dive into the archives and legends of the sport, and the result is a rousing tale of the 100 greatest moments in football lore.
This is the best kind of sports writing. Entertaining, enlightening, heartbreaking, hilarious, and always fascinating, these stories of the sport offer a panoramic look across its history. From hidden gems and classic tales to famous moments told from previously unheard perspectives, this book is the football book for even its most ardent fans.
From Patrick Mahomes's magic to the Ice Bowl, from Doug Flutie's Hail Mary pass to a plethora of football "miracles," Why We Love Football is an unforgettable, conversational masterpiece you won't ever want to end, and a can't-miss take on football from one of the greatest sportswriters of our time.
Tomlin: The Soul of a Football Coach
by John Harris - Tony Dungy
In 2007, at the age of thirty-four, Mike Tomlin was hired as the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Replacing Hall of Famer Bill Cowher--and two years removed from the team's Super Bowl XL victory--there was immense pressure on the first-year head coach, who many fans and those in the media were largely unfamiliar with. After five seasons as an assistant for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and a single season as the defensive coordinator for the Minnesota Vikings, the hiring came as a surprise to many. From his first day at the helm, numerous questions began to be asked: Was this young coach able to lead a veteran team that still had championship hopes? Could the newly hired, soft-spoken coach be able to fill the shoes of the great Cowher, known for being brash and outspoken? Was his hiring based solely on the "Rooney Rule"--named after Steelers owner Dan Rooney--which states that every team must interview at least one minority candidate for their open head coaching position?
Not only did Tomlin rise above the questions and criticism about his credentials, he continued the franchise's reputation of excellence. The youngest coach to win a Super Bowl in only his second season at the helm, Tomlin has yet to have a losing record in sixteen seasons with the team. He is also the second-most tenured head coach in the league, only behind Bill Belichick of the New England Patriots.
But the question still unanswered is, who is Mike Tomlin? Known for giving little to the media and keeping his thoughts and opinions private, those outside the locker room and Steelers offices know little about the future Hall of Fame coach. Even as one of the most successful African American head coaches in NFL history, and one that has handled numerous locker room "personalities" over the years, much of what is written and reported about the coach is only above the surface. That's where John Harris comes in.
A veteran journalist who covered Tomlin's hiring for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Harris works to pull back the curtain on the mystique behind this "coaching unicorn." Beginning with his days as a wide receiver at William & Mary, his several years in the college coaching ranks, to getting hired by Hall of Fame coach Tony Dungy with the Buccaneers and his single season with the Vikings, Tomlin shares how a young man from Hampton, Virginia, was able to establish himself as a leader of men in a business with so much turnover, earned the respect from his peers and players, and has continued to be someone that is looked up to by so many in the league.
With interviews from former players, coaches, and executives, Harris lets readers in on what it's like to play for Tomlin, why he is (or is not) beloved in Pittsburgh, and how his continued success has helped change the landscape of what NFL franchises look for in hiring a head coach. All from a man that chooses to give all the success to his players and coaches--past and present--than take it for himself: exactly what every franchise hopes for from the leader of their team.
Once a Giant: A Story of Victory, Tragedy, and Life After Football
by Gary Myers
The inside story of the Super Bowl champion 1986 Giants, the extraordinary friendships that resulted--and stunning revelations about the hardships they faced, based on new interviews with Bill Parcells, Phil Simms, Mark Bavaro, and Bill Belichick.
The 1986 New York Giants are legendary. A championship team coached by Bill Parcells and his wunderkind assistant Bill Belichick, featuring future Hall of Famers and All-Pros like Phil Simms, Lawrence Taylor, Mark Bavaro, and Harry Carson. They were dominant on the field and formed a unique and lasting bond off of it. More than thirty years later, it's the friendships that have proved more important--a matter of life and death.
In Once a Giant, bestselling football writer Gary Myers tells the story of that team and what became of it. Gridiron glory eventually faded; chronic pain, addiction, and in some cases crimes have followed. Many football players face these harsh realities, but the Giants have confronted and survived them together.
With unprecedented access, Myers dives into such issues as Mark Bavaro's battle with injuries, the breakup and reconciliation of Parcells and Belichick, and Lawrence Taylor's struggles with sobriety. He creates a never-before-seen portrait of the team's run to the title, and their even more challenging fight to live after it ended.