Bücher von Joe Zagorski

The 1972 Green Bay Packers were not expected to challenge for a playoff spot, or even to top their four victories from the season before. The team lacked bona fide superstars. But the players were an eclectic group of over-achievers. By season's end became the only Packers team throughout the 1970s to earn a division title.

The National Football League in the 1970s represented a new epoch in professional football. This book examines each year of the NFL's pivotal decade in detail, covering the great names, great rivalries and great games of the '70s. The author explains key changes in both strategy and rules and how pro football developed into the near-religious American tradition we see today.