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Overview

Using some of the most prominent voices in pro sports and cultural and media criticism, How Football Explains America is a fascinating, first-of-its-kind journey through the making of America's most complex, intriguing, and popular game.

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A more accurate, if less provocative, title for this fascinating pop culture treatise would be How Football Relates to American History and Culture. While no one thing does in fact really explain America, football does cut a very wide swath in its connection to the American experience. Relying on interviews and eclectic research sources, ESPN reporter Paolantonio links key points about the game to events, characters, cultural details, and American symbols. For example, he says that the establishment in football of down and distance, possession and territory, is tied to the American policy of Manifest Destiny. Huddles are connected to the importance of free assembly in a democracy as noted by Alexis de Toqueville. Similarly, the author demonstrates common American concepts like the frontier, race, ethnicity, immigration, leadership, social change, commercialism, celebrity worship, corruption, and teamwork in the context of football. The book is very engagingly written, with each chapter framed by an incident from the 2007 NFL season to bring to life the main argument in the body of that chapter. Paolantonio is a popular and well-known figure, and this insightful examination of why we love football will be read by a broad range of patrons.
—John Maxymuk

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781600780462
  • Publisher: Triumph Books
  • Publication date: 9/1/2008
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Pages: 211
  • Sales rank: 242,442
  • Product dimensions: 6.36 (w) x 8.20 (h) x 0.89 (d)

Table of Contents


Prologue     ix
How Football Explains Manifest Destiny     1
How Football Explains Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett     15
How Football Explains Alexis de Tocqueville     33
How Football Explains John Coltrane and Jackie Robinson     51
How Football Explains West Point     73
How Football Explains the Battle of Midway     95
How Football Explains Father Knows Best     115
How Football Explains the '60s     139
How Football Explains Show Business     159
How Football Explains Us All     183
Acknowledgments     199
Notes     201
Selected Bibliography     209
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  • Posted February 9, 2009

    A good one.

    A very fun read for both the football fan and for one who likes to observe and consider American culture. Paolantonio knows football and has done his research. But he is also as astute observer of America. His insights are very good. A very fun book that I highly recommend for its intended audience.

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