The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Football, Second Edition, provides new and intermediate football fans with all the information they need to understand and enjoy football. From high school to the NFL, coverage includes the basics of offense and defense, players, rules, strategies and even what to wear! New coverage for this edition includes: the draft - how it works for teams and players including parity, new technology on the field including instant replay, dangerous referee flags and rules changes for college and pro ball, XFL, arena league, expansion teams and NFL Europe, and the changing business and team strategy for professional football today.
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Joe Theismann was the winning quarterback in Super Bowl XVII, a two-time Pro Bowl player, and the most productive quarterback ever for the Washington Redskins. In 1983, he was voted MVP of both the NFL and the Super Bowl. He co-hosts ESPN's popular NFL Countdown and Primetime. He has been inducted into the GTE Academic All-American Hall of Fame and the Sports Hall of Fame of New Jersey.
Brian Tarcy has authored or co-authored six books on both sports and business, including a biography of Mario Lemieux for Chelsea House.
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32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
You will know football even though you are not an American,
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This review is from: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Football (2nd Edition) (Paperback)
I'm a Chinese girl and never watched any American football games in Hong Kong until I married to an American and moved to United States one and half years ago. He is a football fan and he keeps track his team every day, not to mention especially during the regular season every Sunday.
I started to watch football games with him, and I liked it a lot. Now, I understand why so many American like football. I asked many questions while I was watching the game, because I wanted to understand it more. Therefore, I read this book last year and it gave me a lot of basic information in an easy way. More interesting is the book gives many statistics and facts that I was impressed by the football business. Anyone has no idea about football, this book can help. Now, my husband was surprised that I knew football so well and we discussed football a lot during the regular season this year. This book helps us to have more conversation topics.
22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
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the complete idiots guide to football 2nd edition,
By Lakaya M. Peeples (Cincinnati, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Football (2nd Edition) (Paperback)
if you know NOTHING about football from lack of interest or comprehesion, and the love-of-your-life knows EVERYTHING about football from the time he could speak...this book is a great help. you come away from this book knowing more than a little SOMETHING, and it becomes an excellent referrence guide. don't let your love see it until you are done...this is such a great read...you may not get it back for a while if you allow it to leave your hands. there's no boring, classroom type format-just clear fun info.
31 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good for football culture, kinda weak and jargony on actual rules,
By Shamus Macgillicuddy (Brooklyn, NY United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Football (2nd Edition) (Paperback)
I like the straightforwardness of the writing, and the insight into the appeal of the game. Alas, if you're an outsider hoping to learn the game from scratch, you're going to have a lot of trouble--after teaching you rudimentary terms, the writers start describing the game as if you've been watching it all your life, tossing barely-introduced jargon around all over the place. I was really disappointed that the one aspect of the game I was most interested in (the actual GAME) was so poorly rendered.
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smashmouth football, blitz adjustment, possession guys, punting team, kicking team, throwing lanes, zone blitz, intentional grounding, hot receiver, speed guys, penalty signals, head linesman, combination coverage, kick returner, one linebacker, sideline reporter, four wide receivers, eagle defense, nickel package, offensive linemen, game gear, zone coverage, stopping the run, prevent defense, pass coverage Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Super Bowl, Joe's Record Book, Joe's Gridiron Talk, Joe's Tips, New York, Chicago Bears, Green Bay Packers, The Least You Need, Washington Redskins, Dallas Cowboys, Joe's Rules, San Francisco, Cleveland Browns, Notre Dame, New England Patriots, Pittsburgh Steelers, Baltimore Colts, Baltimore Ravens, Joe Namath, The Hogs, American Football League, Miami Dolphins, Jim Brown, National Football League, Jerry Rice New!
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smashmouth football, blitz adjustment, possession guys, punting team, kicking team, throwing lanes, zone blitz, intentional grounding, hot receiver, speed guys, penalty signals, head linesman, combination coverage, kick returner, one linebacker, sideline reporter, four wide receivers, eagle defense, nickel package, offensive linemen, game gear, zone coverage, stopping the run, prevent defense, pass coverage Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Super Bowl, Joe's Record Book, Joe's Gridiron Talk, Joe's Tips, New York, Chicago Bears, Green Bay Packers, The Least You Need, Washington Redskins, Dallas Cowboys, Joe's Rules, San Francisco, Cleveland Browns, Notre Dame, New England Patriots, Pittsburgh Steelers, Baltimore Colts, Baltimore Ravens, Joe Namath, The Hogs, American Football League, Miami Dolphins, Jim Brown, National Football League, Jerry Rice New!
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