Ted Kluck

Three-Week Professionals

Inside the 1987 NFL Players' Strike

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Produktbeschreibung

In 1987 NFL players went on strike, demanding better pay and the right to seek free agency. Determined to keep the league going, teams pulled replacements from wherever they could-from the semi-pros to bar stools, in order to create makeshift teams. Three-Week Professionals: Inside the 1987 NFL Players' Strike finally tells their stories.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781442241541
• ISBN-10: 1442241543
• Artikelnr.: 42472677

Autorenporträt

By Ted Kluck

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: Here I Go Again: Football in France Introduction: Land of
Confusion: Tape, Turf and the 1987 NFL Player's Strike Chapter 1: Planes,
Trains, and Automobiles: The Football Nomad (Mike Hohensee) Chapter 2:
Didn't We Almost Have It All: The Meat and Seafood Guy (Joe Bock) Chapter
3: Full Metal Jacket: The Coach (Les Steckel) Chapter 4: Who Will You Run
To?: The New Irving Fryar (Larry Linne) Chapter 5: Yo, Bum Rush the
Show: From Suge Knight to Steve Dils Chapter 6: Wall Street: Money Never
Sleeps (Leigh Steinberg) Chapter 7: You Keep Me Hangin' On: From First
Round to Replacement (John Reaves) Chapter 8: Stand by Me: The Regulars
(Keith Butler and Jeff Kemp) Chapter 9: The Last Emperor: Montana and the
End of the Strike Part I Chapter 10: The Lost Boys: Adrian Breen and the
End of Strike Football Part II Epilogue: Over the Top: 1987 and Beyond
Afterword: The Running Man: On Walter Payton and Boyhood Idols
Acknowledgments About the Author Bibliography