Joe Ziemba

Broschiertes Buch

Bears vs. Cardinals

The NFL's Oldest Rivalry

Beschreibung

In their early years, the Chicago Bears and the Chicago Cardinals-- the two oldest teams in the National Football League --travelled the country with only rare mention in the newspapers. Both teams later saw their official records destroyed by fire. Most of what is now known about those initial seasons is based on often inaccurate statements made many years later. Reconstructing their missing history, this book draws on newly available resources to document the battles and brawls on and off the field, the cunning backroom deals, the financial woes and the 40-year rivalry that endured while both teams were in Chicago. Figures like Al Capone, Red Grange, Jim Thorpe and Bronko Nagurski make appearances in the lore of two old adversaries whose uneasy alliance helped ensure the survival of the fledgling NFL.

Autor

Joe Ziemba is the award-winning author of the book When Football Was Football: The Chicago Cardinals and the Birth of the NFL. A life-long resident of the south side of Chicago, Joe first became interested in the history of football after discovering that his father was a draft choice for the Chicago Cardinals of the National Football League in the 1940s. He is now recognized nationally for his knowledge of the early days of the game and has been a resource for articles, photos, or reports in Sports Illustrated, the New York Times, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Daily Southtown, NBC Sunday Night Football, and many others. Joe has appeared on the WGN documentary "Football in Chicago," a Comcast Sports special on the Chicago Bears, as well as on radio stations such as WBBM and WSCR in Chicago. He has spoken on the history of football throughout the country at schools, libraries, service clubs, and conferences, and shares the humor and challenges that football pioneers faced in the early days of the game. As a loyal, but frustrated, football fan, Joe is not allowed to remain in the same room with other human beings during telecasts of Notre Dame or Chicago Bears football games. He also is convinced that the seventy year wait since the last NFL title for the Chicago/Arizona Cardinals is a minor distraction that might end this century. Joe lives with his wife, Carol, in Frankfort, IL along with an ill-tempered, but charitable, Shih Tzu named Lucy. He can be reached at [e-mail] or follow his Facebook page "Chicago Cardinals."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 659g
• ISBN-13: 9781476688510
• ISBN-10: 1476688516
• Artikelnr.: 65983067