The bible for passionate, knowledgeable pro football fans, The Official NFL 2003 Record & Fact Book is the only record book authorized by the NFL and distributed to media around the world as a press guide from league headquarters. And the revamped, almanac-size format works-with the right size and the right shape. This all-in-one resource of vital statistics, information, trivia, and more contains all essential information, including: all-time NFL individual and team records; a complete listing of 2002 team and individual statistics; top individual rushing, passing, receiving, and quarterback sack performances of 2002; 2003 NFL draft summary; game-by-game summaries of the 2002 season; official records for postseason games, Super Bowl, and Pro Bowl; active and career coaching records; active statistical leaders going into the 2003 season; all-time team-versus-team results; a listing of outstanding individual performances; a digest of NFL rules; and a special Inside the Numbers statistical highlights section, from road records for the past decade to highest NFL postseason passer ratings.
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"Detailed information for the devoted fan . . . is offered accurately, concisely, and in abundance." -- American Reference Books Annual
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The National Football League (NFL) is the largest professional American football league. It is an unincorporated association controlled by its members.It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association (the league changed the name to American Professional Football League in 1921 and then settled on its current name in 1922). The league currently consists of thirty-two teams from American cities and regions, divided evenly into two conferences — the American Football Conference (AFC) and National Football Conference (NFC) — of four four-team divisions. The regular season is a seventeen-week schedule during which each team has one bye week and plays sixteen games. This schedule includes six games against a team's divisional rivals, as well as several inter-division and inter-conference games. The season currently starts on the Thursday night in the first full week of September (the Thursday after Labor Day) and runs weekly to late December or early January. At the end of each regular season, six teams from each conference play in the NFL playoffs, a twelve-team single-elimination tournament that culminates with the championship game, known as the Super Bowl. This game is held at a pre-selected site which is usually a city that hosts an NFL team. The following week, selected all-star players from both the AFC and NFC meet in the Pro Bowl, held in Honolulu, Hawaii. While baseball is known as America's "'national pastime,"' football is the most popular sport in the United States. According to the Harris Poll, professional football moved ahead of baseball as the fans' favorite in 1965 and has remained America's favorite sport ever since. In a Harris sports poll done in 2008, the NFL was the favorite sport of nearly as many people (30 percent) as the combined total of the next four professional sports – baseball (fifteen percent), auto racing (ten percent), hockey (five percent) and men’s pro basketball (four percent), [2] Additionally, Football's American TV viewership ratings now surpass those of other sports. The NFL has the highest per-game attendance of any domestic professional sports league in the world, drawing over 67,000 spectators per game for each of its two most recently completed seasons, 2006 and 2007. However, the NFL's overall attendance is only approximately 20% of that of Major League Baseball, due to MLB's much longer schedule (about 162+ games).
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Everything for the die hard NFL fan!,
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This review is from: 2003 NFL Record & Fact Book, 84th Season (Official 2003 National Football League Record & Fact Book) (Paperback)
This book is truly amazing! Includes statistics from previous season, all-time NFL records, team vs. team series results, team profiles. Everything the die-hard NFL fan needs to know or could ever want to know about the history of the NFL is in this book. Updated before the start of every NFL season, this is one book you can't afford to be without. I've purchased this book every year since 1997 and I've yet to be disappointed.
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No NFL Fan can go through the season without this book,
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This review is from: 2003 NFL Record & Fact Book, 84th Season (Official 2003 National Football League Record & Fact Book) (Paperback)
2003 The Official NFL Record and Facts Book by the NFL provides statistics, past scores, history of the league, and essential information that will keep the average NFL fan glued to every page. Every NFL fan should have this book on their bookshelves. Want to know what record your team had in 1977? or, want to know who was the first pick for your team 1983? This book has it. After you purchase your 2003 edition, you won't stop there. Every year, you will have to get the new edition as records and facts change.
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every year the same,
By Karl Albrecht Berthold (Berlin, Germany) - See all my reviews
This review is from: 2003 NFL Record & Fact Book, 84th Season (Official 2003 National Football League Record & Fact Book) (Paperback)
I am from germany so dont get confused with my (bad) english.Since i read my first fact book in 1987 it haven't changed. If you have one, you have them all. But because i am interested in nfl-records, i buy this book, but since few records are broken during ONE season, it's enough to buy the book every 3 or 4 years. ther's to less information beyond the stats you can read in the every-day newspapers during the nfl-season. for example: if you want to know how many Yards the Broncos gained vs. the rams in Week one you'll NOT find. on the positive: there are no errors in the stats, it's very easy to to survey and it has some (but very less) good stats behind the one's in the daily newspapers. i like for example the section of the starting records of active QB`s. in all: for average (stats-) fans it's great, but don't try to look for deep inside the numbers, you'll not find it here.
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