Books for Football Fans

In case you haven’t noticed, it’s football season! Whether you’re a die-hard Packers or Badgers fan or find the obsession with the sport to be totally nerve-wracking, there are books and more for you at the library.

Books on the ins and outs of the sport:

• Football Made Simple: a spectator’s guide by Dave Ominski and P.J. Harari
• The Pro Football Fan’s Companion: how to watch the game like an expert by Ralph Hickok

Books about leagues, teams, and people:

• LT Over the Edge: tackling quarterbacks, drugs, and a world beyond football by Lawrence Taylor with Steve Serby
• Packers: green, gold, and glory edited by Bill Syken
• The National Forgotten League: entertaining stories and observations from pro football’s first fifty years by Dan Daly
• Green Bay Packers: trials, triumphs, and tradition by William Povletich
• Paterno by Joe Posnanski
• I Beat the Odds: from homelessness, to the blind side, and beyond by Michael Oher, with Dan Yaeger
• Through My Eyes by Tim Tebow
• Where Men Win Glory: the odyssey of Pat Tillman by Jon Krakauer
• Boys Will Be Boys: the glory days and the party nights of the Dallas Cowboys dynasty by Jeff Pearlman
• Favre by Brett Favre
• When Pride Still Mattered: a life of Vince Lombardi by David Maraniss
• Friday Night Lights: a town, a team, and a dream by H.G. Bissinger

Football movies:

• All Things Fall Apart
• The Blind Side
• Leatherheads
• The Game Plan
• Gridiron Gang
• Facing the Giants
• The Longest Yard
• Friday Night Lights
• Radio
• Rudy

Stop in or give us a call if you’d like us to put one of these titles on hold for you, or do so yourself by signing in to RockCat. And enjoy the rest of the 2013 football season!