Pigskin

Pigskin Every Sunday in America millions of people gather around their TV's to watch the most popular sport in the country today, professional football. Professional football’s stature has only recently, in the last 35 years, grown to be the culture-defining pastime that it is today. Pigskin by Robert W. Peterson, who has written other sports history books such as Only the Ball Was White and Cages to Jump Shots, is about the roots of professional football, how the game was played and how the business was done before the era of big money TV contracts. It tells the story of how through humble beginnings and times of doubt professional football grew, found its place, and has thrived through the perseverance and hard work of many people. Early proponents of pro football had to fight feelings of anti-professionalism amongst the biggest gurus of their own sport. Sports such as boxing, horse racing, college football, not to mention baseball, dwarfed pro football in popularity and revenues. Pigskin is an excellent book that vividly describes the ascension of professional football from the days of under the table payments from Ivy League programs and athletic clubs to the television era of football, professional, college, game, book, story, one, nfl, league, first, teams, pro, play, over, money, athletic, years, told, today, through, star, played, pigskin, halas, games, black, between, being, apfa, after, world, university, time