The epic tale of the five owners who shepherded the NFL through its tumultuous early decades and built the most well liked sport in America
The National Football League is a towering, distinctly American colossus spewing out $14 billion in annual revenue. Nevertheless it was once not at all times a success. In
The League, John Eisenberg specializes in the pioneering sportsmen who kept the league alive in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, when its challenges were many and its survival was once not guaranteed. On the time, college football, baseball, boxing, and horseracing dominated The usa’s sports scene. Art Rooney, George Halas, Tim Mara, George Preston Marshall, and Bert Bell believed in pro football when few others did and in the end succeeded only because at critical junctures each and every sacrificed the short-term success of his team for the longer-term good of the league.
At once a history of a sport and a remarkable story of business ingenuity,
The League is an very important read for any fan of our true national pastime.
