The greatest football teams of all time

The greatest football teams of all time

Jeremy Fuchs

Book - 2018

"G.O.A.T. It takes something special to be a G.O.A.T., and it isn't horns. G.O.A.T. stands for Greatest of All Time. It's what every football player and team strives to be. Inside this book you'll find plenty of G.O.A.T.'s from every era and level of the game. Learn more about football's biggest stars and teams and see where they rank."--Back cover.

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Subjects
National Football League > Juvenile literature.
Football teams > United States > History > Juvenile literature.
Football players > United States > History > Juvenile literature.
Football > Records > Juvenile literature.
Published
New York, NY : Liberty Street, an imprint of Time Inc. Books, a division of Meredith Corporation 2018.
Language
English
Main Author
Jeremy Fuchs (author)
Other Authors
Elizabeth McGarr McCue (author), Sam Page (illustrator), Martin Laksman
Edition
First edition
Item Description
Includes index.
Physical Description
141 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
ISBN
9781683300724
  • In search of greatness
  • The top 20 single-season NFL teams
  • The ultimate NFL dream team
  • The top 10 single-season college teams
  • The best season for every NFL franchise
  • The best teams in other leagues
  • The G.O.A.T.'s with the most
  • Index.
Review by Kirkus Book Review

Storied football teams are ranked and compared.After an introduction that establishes the subjectivity of any sort of greatest rankings ("Because the only thing better than watching football is arguing about it afterward") and defines the familiar-to-sports-fans acronym G.O.A.T. (Greatest Of All Time), this book sets out to build cases for which teams (and players) were the best. An unsurprisingly NFL-heavy book, the first chapter covers 20 top NFL teams season by season; this makes up roughly the first half of the book. The selected seasons range from 1940 (the Bears) to 2016 (the Patriots), with some franchises appearing more than once. Alongside narrative highlights of the team's season, each set of two spreads includes sidebars covering impressive team statistics and interesting anecdotes (such as the first player to dump Gatorade on a coach, strange sports superstitions, and a prank involving an alligator in a shower). The second chapter breaks from the team focus to select individual NFL players at each position, and the third chapter branches out to single-season college teams (limited to 10, which is sure to disappoint readers from unrepresented college football towns). Then the book returns to the NFL with blurbs about the best year for each franchise, takes a break to highlight a single team from a handful of other leagues (including Canadian and a women's league), before returning to the NFL for a collection of top-10 lists by team stats.A football fan's treasure trove of magic seasons and moments. (index) (Nonfiction. 8-14) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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