The Legacy Handoff: Fathers, Sons and the National Football League

For readers of Lars Anderson’s The Mannings and Jeff Benedict’s The Dynasty, Cash Lambert draws on exclusive interviews with NFL fathers and sons—from players and coaches to owners and executives—to uncover the lessons passed between generations: a father-son playbook for football and life.

Of the thousands of players, coaches, owners, executives, officials, broadcasters, and filmmakers in NFL history, only a few hundred sons have followed their fathers into the league. Drawing on firsthand ...