Total Football II Offers in a Single Volume The Complete History of Professional Football. Here are the most complete statistics for each of the nearly 18,000 players who’ve played in even a single NFL game. You'll find essays on the history of the game, its championship teams, most significant games, and greatest players--along with the legend, lore and mystique of football. The official encyclopedia of the National Football League, Total Football II includes: articles on the evolution of strategy through the years histories of every team past and present biographies of the NFL's 300 greatest players football families the most complete lists ever published of team rosters, awards, and the NFL draft and more. New to this completely revised and updated edition are a host of new articles, covering an eclectic range of football-related topics, from offensive formations to football at the movies. This nearly inexhaustible wealth of gridiron material was provided by the NFL staff, the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and the Pro Football Researchers Association, as well as by the game's foremost writers and historians. The heart of Total Football is the Player Register with statistics provided by the Elias Sports Bureau, the NFL's official statistician since 1961, Bob Carroll and David Neft. For more than 30 years, Carroll and Neft have collected information on players, birthdates and places, high schools, and colleges attended. For Total Football they supplemented their research by contacting hundreds of former players and more than 400 colleges and universities. If it's about football, you'll find it within these pages, the book that Pro Football Weekly and other experts have called "the best football book ever"

"For the first time ever, you'll find complete statistics for every player who has played even a single game in the NFL. Essays on the history of the game, its championship teams, and most significant games are just the beginning." "Total Football also features articles on the evolution of strategy through the years, team histories, the 300 greatest players, football families, players who enjoyed great public careers after football (such as U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron White), and the most complete lists ever published on team rosters, awards, and the draft."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Presents the statistics of professional American football players, coaches, and teams for each season from 1920-2006.

Glossary of terms; histories of every team in the NFL; THe great moments in pictures, many in full color; biographies of every member of the pro football hall of fame.

Sports historians Neft and Cohen have created the football counterpart to Macmillan's Baseball Encyclopedia with this collection of rare, never-before-published statistics on the earliest years of organized pro football. Features key historical events from the game's origins in the 1890s through the 1990-91 season and Super Bowl.