Remember the AFL: The Ultimate Fan's Guide to the American Football League | 
 enlarge | Author: David Steidel
Publisher: Clerisy Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 12654
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 448
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.4
Dimensions (in): 10 x 8 x 1.2
ISBN: 1578603234
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.332640973
EAN: 9781578603237
ASIN: 1578603234
Publication Date: September 1, 2008
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Product Description
Remember the AFL features an unprecedented season-by-season, team-by-team history of the league that lasted from 1960 to 1969. Through in-depth research, dozens of player interviews, and hundreds of photos, including many classic football cards, this book brings that unique era in professional football to life. It’s all here, from the behind-the-scenes stories of the early days, when the league struggled for survival, through Super Bowl III, when “Broadway” Joe Namath guaranteed — and delivered — a victory against the NFL’s Baltimore Colts. Fans will also relive the history of the AFL by engaging the challenge of over 500 trivia questions. This is pure 1960s nostalgia for football fans old and young.
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Brings Back a Lot of Memories... October 24, 2008
If your a fan of the AFL,you need this book. This book has it all! The year by year review of the new league, stats, team by team analysis, etc. The old photos are amazing. What a great bunch of players- characters really... Fred " The Hammer" Williamson, Ben Davison, Cookie Gilchrist, Len Dawson, Fred Biletnikoff, Lance Alworth, John Hadl,Joe Willie Namath, I could go on and on...GREAT BOOK!
Long Live The AFL! October 10, 2008
Outstanding book on the American Football League! Five star book all the way around, great writing, great pictures, even if the book is a little anti Buffalo especially in the back rankings section (How can the Bills not have one of the top ten teams of the AFL?...Back to Back titles in '64 and '65, best defense to play in the league...wow! And how is OJ Simpson one of the biggest busts? He played one year in the AFL then went on to a Hall of Fame career and is regarded as the greatest open field runner in history, let's leave his personal life out of it). Besides this, its a wonderful book very worthy of purchase.
Top-notch retrospective on the AFL October 4, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Like the author, I followed the AFL during all its years of operation. Unlike the author, I was never a collector of football cards, so I really enjoyed the plethora of them that are presented, in color, in this book.
However, this is not just a photo book. There is a well-written retrospective on each season, which is organized team-by-team (rather than week-by-week, for instance). I couldn't detect any particular order in which the teams are covered within each season, except that the two teams involved in the league championship game are covered last, with the winner being the very last team covered. The championship game itself (and later the Super Bowl) is covered within the material on the teams, rather than having a separate space. The AFL All Star games, however, are each given about a separate half page of coverage at the end of the seasons when the game was played.
Within this format, each team is given at least three pages each season, with the championship winner given up to eight pages. For each team within a season, the coverage is chronological, with more important games and player moves discussed in greater depth. Rushing, passing, receiving, and scoring stats for team leaders conclude each team section.
The seasonal retrospectives make up Part I of the book, about 350 pages (after 20 or so pages of introductory material); Part II of the book, the trivia section, is only about 50 pages long. However, in addition to this designated trivia section, there are trivia type questions interspersed throughout the retrospective sections as well.
I did find a few typos, almost inevitable in a book with this many numbers and names, but the only actual misstatement I found (p52) was that Tom Harmon, who broadcast some AFL games, had never played pro football (he played for the Rams in '46 and '47)--a non-substantive error relative to the topic of the book.
a great book October 4, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Dave Steidel chronicals the birth and growth of the American Football League in a lively and entertaining way. He tells the stories both as a passionate fan and also as a sports historian, emphasizing the wide open and exciting league that was to leave such an enormous and yet underappreciated impact on modern football. The AFL continues to be underrated by those either who lack historical perspective or perhaps who were beguiled by the early NFL pre-merger snobbery of the 1960's. Hopefully this fine book will put some of that attitude to rest, so that those like my father (Charlie Hennigan, Oilers '60-'66) who played in the AFL may get some of the recognition they deserve. Steve Hennigan, MD
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