Kickoff: How Football Began

By Jim Gigliotti

Fall 2012 • 40 pages
Paperback with French Flaps; also a hardcover edition

POSTPONED until 2012

9h x 11w
ISBN 978-1-936310-17-3 (pb) • $14.99
ISBN 978-1-936310-18-0 (hc) • $19.99

Football games begin with a kickoff . . . but how did the first football game begin? A former NFL Publishing writer and editor straps on his leather helmet to go back to football's earliest days, the rough-and-tumble years of the late 1800s and early 1900s. Watch the game loved by millions today evolve from a semi-organized brawl to a huge national enterprise. How did Teddy Roosevelt play a part? What was the flying wedge? And who was Pudge Hefflefinger? Every football fan will enjoy this look at the game's distant past, when dreams of Super Bowls were still decades away.